Promoting your brand, whatever the weather

With torrential rain battering the UK this week, there’s never been a better time to hold a custom branded umbrella in your hand.

Custom umbrellas aren’t just a great defence against Mother Nature, they’re one of the most effective promotional merchandise tools to help showcase your brand and boost your brand recognition. Recent research by the BPMA found that consumers are more than 80% more likely to keep hold of a branded umbrella for its usefulness, meaning that your brand image will make more impressions than alternative products. As promotional items, umbrellas are constantly proving that they positively engage consumers and increase brand recognition.

Walking Length and City Umbrellas

Over the past few years, we have seen an increase in the demand for walking length umbrellas for both male and female consumers. Perfect for city usage, these umbrella options provide sufficient coverage for the wet weather, without becoming burdensome on busy streets. Once the rain stops and the weather clears, these custom umbrellas remain stylish and are perfect for a stroll.

Not only are these umbrellas designed to make your brand stand out, but are very functional. With the ability to utilise an unlimited number of colours,  faithful reproduction of multi-coloured logos, tonal images and photographic designs, you can promote your brand exactly how you want across 360°.

Whether you’re looking for vented options, or perhaps wooden, steel, or fibreglass ribs and handles, our city umbrellas are completely customisable and fantastic products to promote your brand to busy urban customers.

Telescopic and Compact Umbrellas

With an increasing number of people commuting to work in the UK, it’s easy to see why promotional telescopic umbrellas are ever-growing in popularity. Compact when closed and protective when open, our range of folding umbrellas ensure that your customers will reach their destination dry without having their hands full with larger alternatives.

Despite having smaller brandable areas to their larger counterparts, these compact options still offer 360° of fully customisable printing, with the extra option to utilise their protective sleeves. Available in a wide range of materials and styles, compact umbrellas are the perfect promotional product to target those who value practicality in their promotional merchandise.

Eco-Friendly Umbrella Options

Our range of recycled umbrellas gives your customers to stay dry without costing the Earth. Built to last and featuring canopies made from recycled PET bottles, our eco-friendly umbrellas are a great promotional product option for the more forward-thinking consumer. Thanks to the development of the revolutionary “Green Plus®” yarn, used PET bottles are processed into polyester yarn which is used to weave our unique umbrella fabric. The material performs in exactly the same way as our conventional fabric but offers the added benefit of being 100% recycled.

Golf Umbrellas

Perfect for all-year-round outdoor events, golf umbrellas provide your customers with the most shelter against the bad weather. Stretching to a whopping 1.45m diameter when opened fully, these big brollies are perfect for a wide variety of customers.

Not only do they provide bigger opportunities to promote your brand, but can be completely customised to match your brand identity and leave a big impression on your customers. From the handle to the tip on the other end, you can personalise these products in hundreds of different ways.

The Soft Feel printing method gives you Pantone matched fabric and allows for dramatic full panel designs. An unlimited number of colours, faithful reproduction of multi-coloured logos, tonal images and photographic designs are the main features of this printing process.

High-Quality Protection

If you’re looking to provide your clients and customers with a high-quality umbrella option to protect them from the elements, there’s no product more effective than the Safebrella®.

Available in four colours and an array of sizes, this practical umbrella provides a windproof design to help it withstand the stormiest of weathers. Coated in a patented reflective material, the Safebrella® is designed to stand out. With a powerful LED torch within the handle, you can keep your customers well-lit and dry, no matter what the weather.

Although lower priced umbrella options are available, short-term savings could create a false economy. Should the quality be compromised within a short period of time, customers may see your brand as “cheap” for providing lower quality goods. If you’re looking for a larger return on your investment, products like the Safebrella® can highly benefit your brand. With bespoke branding options available on both the umbrella and the protective sleeve, this is the ideal product to promote your brand image for a substantial period of time and let your clients know that you’re there for them when the skies turn grey.

Quality Assurance

For over 35 years, we’ve helped countless clients stay dry with bespoke umbrellas. From initial concepts to final delivery, we’re here to help you throughout the entire process to ensure that you get exemplary service and a final product your brand can be proud of. No matter how complex or simplistic your ideas may be, we can help make them a reality.

If you’d like to see an example of our umbrellas, check out our case study on Rudding Park.

For more information on how to utilise bespoke umbrellas to boost your brand image, get in touch today. Visit umbrella.sycal.co.uk or get in touch directly on 01234 841741.