It’s competition time….

To celebrate our new stick deals, we are going to be giving away 20 PAIRS OF CUSTOM PRINTED
DRUM STICKS to one lucky drummer…

All you have to do is leave us a comment on Facebook or a tweet on Twitter
with a link to your band name. A winner will be drawn at random over the
next few days! You must be in a band to enter this competition as we don’t
want a random internet spam machine winning this! We want a happy drummer!

http://www.facebook.com/awesomemerchandise
http://www.twitter.com/awesomemerch

So that’s 20 pairs of sticks with your bands name on! Get commenting and
tweeting!

We just launched custom printed lighters with bottle openers on them after a lot of customer requests.

Get 100 of these bottle opener lighters for just £75 including VAT and delivery…

Wide choice of colours are available!

Smoking might not be cool but these bottle opener lighters are awesome!

This month we have launched the first set of special offers that will be changing each month…

So this month we have badges, stickers and posters on offer…  here are the deals:

1) 500 x 25mm badges for just £60

2) 2500 x full colour, circular paper stickers for only £99

3) 100 x A3 Full colour posters for £35

Check back with us in July when we will have three brand new offers for you!

We were documenting the progress of renovating our new factory unit before someone stole our camera…  We now have a nice new camera and are starting to take pictures of Awesome Merchandise HQ and a little bit on how we work.

Check out these pictures to get a little glimpse into day-to-day things at Awesome Merchandise…

1) This is where it all started for Awesome Merchandise … back in 2005 when we bought our first hand-held badge machine!   Today things have changed, we run four semi-automatic machines capable of producing over 30,000 badges in a single shift…

2) Here are some of the die cut badges awaiting production on our badge machines.. just a few of the thousands of badge orders we process every month.

3) Badge pack headers awaiting cut before they go onto our finishing team where they will be made into badge packaging.

4) Our new Roland printer, this produces custom cut stickers, banners, posters and many more products… Oh, and it is the world’s first digital printer capable of full colour and metallic print…

5) Pad printing room - where we print all of our custom plectrums and drumsticks as well as lighters… In 2010 we are working hard to greatly expand our offerings on the drumstick, plectrum and lighter front after they have been really popular since we launched them back in 2008.

6) Dispatch area - Thanks to the thousands of orders we process every month we have had to create a large dispatch area just to pack up orders, hence the mound of padded envelopes, bubble wrap and boxes!

We will be showing off a lot more of our factory over the summer so check back with us!

Awesome Merchandise is committed to investing in the latest print technology to bring our customers the widest choice of merchandise and print.

As such we have recently installed the Roland XC-540MT wide format print and cut machine, allowing us to print custom shape stickers, billboard posters, banners, canvases, posters, point of sale display and signage.

The exciting thing about our new print production unit is that it is the worlds first digital printer to print metallic silver meaning awesome full colour, metallic print for stickers, posters and more…

Have a special project?  Get in touch today to see how we can help bring your ideas to life!

Our customers love stickers and so do we!

That is why we have just launched our new full colour, custom shaped stickers… you can create awesome stickers in any shape you like, with any number of colours you like and our minimum run is only 100!

That is not all…. we are one of the first companies in the world to install a printer capable of printing in full colour with metallic ink.  This means we can offer high impacet, full colour metallic stickers!

The only limitation is your imagination … let’s create something awesome today!

We have recently bought in new wide format print equipment which means we can offer even better value on our PVC Banners.

Perfect to promote your business or as a band backdrop our banners are printed on state of the art equipment meaning you get awesome results!

From just £24 including delivery and even more size choices Awesome Merchandise are the ideal choice for your banner printing needs!

Click here to see all options for PVC Banners

Wowee it’s been crazy this week at Awesome Merchandise HQ!

Our brand new packaging dies arrived, so we got straight onto making up some awesome examples of our brand new badge packs…we’ve introduced a new range of packaging for our 38mm-size badges.

Check them out here - we’ve got options for one, two, three, four, and six badges per pack!

We’re really excited about introducing these, and we hope you’ll agree that they really are something special.  Badge packaging adds a lot of value to badges and makes them look super awesome.

Stay tuned for more updates, as we’re really going all out this month on overhauling our packaging options!

Follow us on Twitter - www.twitter.com/awesomemerch - for lots of updates and news!

Whilst production were getting stuck into today’s schedule, including getting cracking on 1,500 badge packs to ship tomorrow, I nipped down to check on the progress of the new unit and update you all on how everything’s going!

We’ve started on the painting, and although the front of the unit isn’t quite complete, it’s already looking brighter than before!

The main production room is looking great…

We’ve painted the walls throughout the entire unit, and we’re just finishing off accenting doors and skirting in our signature Awesome Merchandise cyan and magenta!

We’ve still got a way to go, but the main bulk of the decoration is nearly done…

We’ve ripped up all of the old flooring now, and will hopefully be getting a lovely shiny new floor throughout soon.

It’s a dirty job…but someone’s got to do it!

I’ll be making sure that everyone keeps updated on the progress of the unit…it’s exciting times here at Awesome Merchandise!

Keep your eyes peeled for the incredible new product launches coming from mid-March onwards, and check out our newest additions…the beautiful zipper-pulls, compliments slips, and heavyweight prints!

Let us know what you think of the unit, and check us out on Twitter and Facebook for updates on our endorsed drummers…

Also, check out Jhon’s new blog on our MySpace!

It’s super exciting this week here at Awesome Merchandise HQ…we’ve just started work on our new unit, which we hope to be fully operational by mid-March.  Handily, it’s just on the ground floor of the building we’re in currently…so we just popped down to take a few pictures before Chris gets cracking on the work!

Here’s our new front door…we’re moving from unit 83, down to unit 27-28!

This is the main production floor…we’re getting cracking in here on the walls and ceiling before we get a shiny new resin concrete floor.  The walls and ceiling are in the process of being stripped down…

This is going to be our new staff room/corner! It’ll look much better when we’ve fixed it up all lovely and shiny and new, promise!

Horrible old kitchen, soon to be transformed to lovely shiny new kitchen (with amazing storage solutions to maximise the tiny room that houses it)!

Our new office will be a large industrial-chic masterpiece of a room…showcasing our new products, along with our current range so people can drop by and see exactly what we can do for them!

Our new separate room for pad-printing, where we can lock Pete away from the public!  This is where all your drumsticks, plectrums and lighters will be getting printed soon.

Super duper top secret new products room…all will be revealed in good time!

More photos to come as the work is completed/we move in!