BRANDED MERCHANDISE & APPAREL

Branded Gear That People Actually Keep

Apparel, drinkware, kits and the occasional thing nobody else will take on. We find it or we build it, decorate it, store it and ship it wherever it needs to go.

Your Brand Deserves Better

Most of this industry works from a catalog. You get a page of options, you pick one, they mark it up and ship it. It’s a pen that looks like everyone else’s and gets tossed in the bottom of a bag only to be thrown out later. The money leaves your budget either way. The only question is whether it buys something that sits in the back of a drawer or something that gets used for years, with your name on it the whole time.

Work with Sidebar, a merchandise agency, when you want something people will keep, the budget is fixed, or the thing you want doesn’t exist yet. We’re particularly useful when clients bring us in before they’ve decided what they’re buying. We dream and execute every day so put our expertise to use for you so you can look like the hero you are.

Every Piece Has a Job

A thirty-year service award and a recruiting-fair giveaway serve different purposes, so they get different products. We start with the audience, the impression you want to leave and the budget, then recommend what fits.

We’ll tell you when something is more than you need. We’ll also tell you when you can do better. And we’ll offer ideas you probably haven’t thought of yet.

Domestic Speed or Factory-Direct Savings

Short runs and tight deadlines go to domestic partners we’ve used for decades. Large volumes go factory-direct, engineered to your spec.

A client once wanted 23,000 heavy-duty hoodies, and decorating name-brand blanks was pushing past the budget. We sent a sample in every size to one of our manufacturing partners, who took the garment apart and cut new patterns from it. The client received a decorated hoodie with the same weight and construction at half the price.

Managed After It’s Made

Finished product lands in our warehouse, where it’s counted, stored and shipped on your schedule, to one office or four hundred locations.

Need teams to order on their own? We’ll add it to a branded portal with your approvals, budgets and brand standards built in.

HOW IT WORKS

From Idea to Doorstep

Twenty-five years of innovation, sourcing, production and logistics on our side. Your job is a conversation and an approval.

01

Talk it Through

Quantities, timing, budget, and where it has to end up. We'll bring options, usually more than you expected.

02

Approve the Proof

A PDF proof before anything runs, and a physical sample on larger orders when the schedule allows. Nothing goes to production until you've signed off.

03

We Take it From There

Produced, received, counted, stored and shipped. You get tracking, and one invoice however many places it went.

PRODUCT SHOWCASE

From Standard to Spectacular, We Do It All

Everyday staples, specialized custom pieces, and products built from scratch. If you have an idea others have called impossible, we’d like to hear it.