Umbrellas are for more than keeping the weather off your head. When they are customized with your logo, they are the perfect promotional item for responding to requests from local service clubs or customers for fundraiser donations in aid of community activities or
corporate events.
Custom-printed umbrellas are a very economical, well-received, promotional gift to your clients that have long term recognition of your brand.
No need to be concerned about sizes, it doesn’t matter if the recipient is large or small. With our screen-printed umbrellas, one size fits all. Your company logo umbrella will be present for a long time, whereas an item of clothing, if it fits, has a short life span and golf balls only look good until the first one goes into a pond or out of bounds.
The Umbrella Guy came about in 2007 when Ron Hearnden, in Guelph, Ontario, was asked by a funeral director friend to find something unique that could be used as a tasteful promotional item. Previously he had used clothing as a donation to local service clubs and community organizations for their fundraising efforts.
We had just established a relationship with a major private brand golf supplier who had an umbrella available in corporate black. This umbrella could be screen-printed with our friend’s logo in reasonable minimums (12) at the relatively low cost of $2.50 a unit.
We have supplied clients from Cornerbrook, Newfoundland
to Comox, British Columbia.
From this we were referred to other funeral directors, housing developers, pharmacies and car repair garages who have started using the customized umbrellas not only as a courtesy for their clients but for promotional purposes at fundraisers, company sales meetings, corporate golf tournaments, company picnics and the like.
The company name came from a funeral director in London, Ontario who upon a callback, greeted me with "Oh yes, you’re the umbrella guy”. Seemed like a good identifier to me.
