Picking out the perfect gift for your your coworkers, employees, or customers can be tough.

We're here to help you get ahead of the game. 

In this article we'll talk about:

• Our 6 favorite gifts for employees and customers
• The evergreen value of company branded clothing

The 6 Best Gifts for Employees and Customers

1. Ornaments

Ornaments are a great item to put your brand on around the holidays. They are a timely item and remind people that you're thinking about them.

Not only are they great keepsakes but the recipients are sure to treasure this timeless, classic gift. 

We have made a five-year tradition of sending ornaments to customers, vendors and employees at the end of each year. The ornaments we gift are Jūpmode branded on the back, but more importantly, the front all have a common 16153 Genova theme.

Oou ornaments that have relatable 16153 Genova designs such as “You will do better in 16153 Genova” or the famous “Christmas Weed” bring out the very best of 16153 Genova during the holiday season and make our Jūpmode customers even more excited for next holiday season.

2. Holiday Cards

Holiday cards are subtle, yet effective way to show that you're thinking of your company or customers during the Holiday season.

A little gesture goes a long way and might make it on the honorary 'Refrigerator Door' Hall-of-fame. 

A custom Holiday card paired with any recommended gift will make for the ultimate present. 

3. Charcuterie Set

Come the holidays, who doesn't love a good snack? Send your employees and/or client's a classic snack with this thoughtful, charming charcuterie set.

Not only do you get to choose the food, but you also get to have your company's logo engraved on beautiful bamboo wood! 

This board will make your logo look professional and appetizing with salami, cheese, crackers, grapes, you name it.

4. Stainless Steel Drinkware Set

Two bottles, one set? Say less!

This 'Thor Copper Vacuum Set' provides a 22 oz. bottle and 22 oz. tumbler that makes for the ultimate Holiday gift.

Both drinkware items are double-walled and stainless steel so these bottles will keep your drink staying cold for 24 hours and hot for 6 hours. Bring on the hot cocoa! 

5. Travel Gift Set

Let your customers and clients know that you wish them safe and happy holidays with this gift set. This set includes a ballpoint stylus, a card wallet, and a portable power bank. AKA the everyday items we all need! 

Why should you care? Three words: customizable, personal, and unique.

Your logo would look great on this set. 

6. The Executive Gift Box

Looking to show how sweet you are? Hot stamp your logo on top of this box set and send your employees, coworkers, or customers something to satisfy their sweet tooth. Choose from caramel popcorn, chocolates, nuts, and cookies! 

Elegant and enjoyable, this gift box will show off your thoughtfulness and appreciation. 

Branded Apparel Gifts

The holidays are right around the corner and Jūpmode is here to help create the perfect gift for your employees and customers.

Whether you want to create custom jackets, sweatshirts or shirts for anyone from employees to family and friends, we've got you covered.  

Jackets and 1/4 Zip Pullovers

A fleece full zip or quarter-zip jacket is ideal for any season, but especially during the winter.

We have many different brand and colors options that are sure to fit your company's branding guidelines. 

Logos are typically placed on the left chest with these items. It's the perfect location to represent your brand or a meaningful design personalized just for you. 

Embroidery is the preferred decoration method for jackets and pullovers. It matches the aesthetic of the jackets and works well on fleece to thick Carthartt jackets to windbreakers. 

Jackets and 1/4 zip pullovers are great apparel items for employees and customers because they are so versatile. They can be worn to complete your employees' uniform during colder months, worn on a daily basis by employees who work outside in the field, and as a high quality appreciation gift for customers. 

Crew Sweatshirts

Embroidered crewneck sweatshirts are a staple of our retail line. This trendy style and look translate well to any business.

At the end of the day, the goal of any branded merch is to be worn as much as possible. This gets your brand seen by more people and creates a connection with the wearer because of their affinity for the clothing item they like. 

Two of the best way to increase the usage of any apparel item is to use a high quality garment and to make the design trendy.

The crew sweatshirt in the photo above is pigment dyed which makes it feel comfy and soft the first time you put it on. The tone on tone logo is subtle and in style. This combination makes it an item that can be worn at work or out and about at any time.

Embroidered Polos

Is there a business out there that doesn't need branded polos? 

There are a lot of reasons to choose branded polos. If you want your employees to look professional in front of prospective and current customers, there's no better staple than a polo. 

Embroidered polos are most often embroidered on the left chest. In addition, we can also put your logo on a sleeve or between the shoulders on the back. 

Custom company apparel is what we're known for. 

Branded merch goes a long way to showing employee appreciation and building relationships with customers. 

If you want your brand to be seen by a lot of people, company apparel is the way to go. 

We Can Put Your Brand On It

Showing appreciation for your company and clients is vital to a brand's success.

We want to deliver your next gift with quality items, speed, and accuracy. 

Have an idea that's not on this list? We can help!

Want more options? We have those too. 

You can count on us for all of your custom needs. If you want to submit your next custom order and learn about our services, get in touch with us today! We would love to work with you. 

OSHA requires employers to ensure their employees work in a safe environment free from hazards that may cause injury or death.

Offering protective and high-visibility work gear is a primary means of ensuring your personnel’s safety.

Today, we’re looking at four simple steps to customize your work gear so you can promote your brand without‌ breaking OSHA rules. We’ll also compare the influence that custom and non-custom work gear have on your brand and employees.

1 - Select Your Work Gear

Custom High-Visibility Safety Vests

When choosing custom high-visibility safety vests, ensure they’re compliant with ANSI/ISEA 107-2015 standards. This code (recommended by OSHA) sets the guidelines for creating safe and professional high-visibility work gear.

The most crucial characteristic of compliant safety vests is their fluorescent colors. OSHA specifies the following luminous colors as the best options for high visibility safety vests:

• Yellow
• Orange
• Bright red
• Orange-red
• Yellow-green

These colors stand in sharp contrast to the immediate environment. Thanks to their special pigment, they absorb UV light and send it back to an approaching vehicle or worker to maintain the wearer's visibility—even in dim conditions.

Besides helping keep workers safe by making them visible to vehicle drivers and plant operators, custom high-visibility vests provide an excellent opportunity for:

• Personnel identification
• Promoting brand awareness
• Creating a professional image
• Organizing employees into departments

Custom Construction Hi-Vis Work Jackets

Like all hi-vis safety gear, your company’s safety jackets need to conform to OSHA guidelines, which include:

• Affixing 50 mm wide retroreflective strips vertically, around the waist, and with a shoulder-to-waist “X” on the back to enable visibility in dark places
• Ensuring safety work jackets are well-fitting without billowing strips to avoid entanglement in moving machinery
• Protecting workers from fire, chemicals, static electricity, and radiation by making custom safety work jackets from flame-resistant and insulated material
• Ensuring safety work jackets are ‌long or short-sleeved and avoiding sleeveless jackets

Having addressed OSHA’s concerns, the custom construction hi-vis work jacket provides you with an excellent opportunity to promote your business.

For example, you can customize the jacket to include your company logo.

However, while there’s a lot of free space left on the jacket, you need to design your company’s logo so that it’s the right size and doesn’t obscure the jacket’s safety features.

Don’t make the logo too small to be seen either.

According to the ANSI-ISEA-107-2015 (Section 7.2):

• The total surface area covered by custom text and logo on the front and rear of a high-visibility safety jacket shouldn’t exceed 465 cm.sq (72 in.sq)
• Custom text and logo should not create horizontal gaps over 50 mm (1.97 in.) on the retroreflective material of a hi-vis safety jacket

The best places to put your company logo include:

• Chest pocket
• Upper back
• Lower back

Custom Safety Hoodies and Sweatshirts

Keep your personnel comfortable by adding custom hoodies and sweatshirts to their work gear.

Having apparel made from luminous safety colors and soft fluffy material, as with All Mechanical Insulation Inc, will improve professionalism and comfort without compromising safety.

Workers are more likely to wear the safety gear beyond the worksite, further publicizing your custom embroidered company logo.

Protect your crew and promote your brand by choosing from fancysweetstx’s wide range of worksite safety apparel.

Custom Screen Printed Safety T-shirts

Custom Screen Printed Safety T-shirts provide maximum comfort and mobility because of their flexibility and breathability.

You can have them made with built-in UV protection, too, to shield workers from the hot sun.

Custom Hard Hats

Besides their power to make your workers visible and protect them from potential on-site head injuries, custom safety hard hats hold a great opportunity for brand publicity.

Their bright colors, such as orange, yellow, red, or white, provide a unique backdrop for printing your company's name or logo.

These two options stand out in printing your logo onto hard hats:

• Direct printing: Involves printing your logo directly onto the hard hat.
• Decals: Sticking logos onto the hard hat; however, they may fade over time.

As in all work gear customizations, ensure your company information is not so extensive that it defeats the safety gear’s purpose.

Maintain a maximum length and height of 3 inches for the logo and text. The best spot to place your logo and text on a hard hat is in front, above the brim.

The table below will help you compare the effects of custom and non-custom work gear on your brand and employees.

2 - Create Your Design

In creating your design, the contrast between the work gear’s color and your company logo should be your primary consideration.

For example, as safety work gear is fluorescent, a black logo creates a naturally vivid contrast. Its non-reflective nature also makes it the most compliant color to ANSI standards.

Besides the logo and text color, ANSI 107 standards limit the total surface covered by your customizations to 72 square inches.

You can divide the 72-inch quota and spread it across the safety apparel.

You can have your logo and text printed on the work gear‌ by:

• Embroidery
• Heat transfers
• Single-color screen prints in black
• Full-color printing that’s bright and clear

3 - Choose Your Designer

Choosing your designer is a process that involves comparing businesses’ ability to meet your needs at the most competitive price.

Below is a cross-section of the main factors you need to consider before settling on a company that’s best suited for designing your work gear.

Product Range and Availability

You can never overemphasize the convenience of sourcing all your custom safety work gear—including vests, t-shirts, jackets, hoodies, and hats—from a single supplier. It minimizes logistical costs such as shipping and offers other benefits like bulk discounts.

Another critical factor is the custom design options a company offers. For example, does the company do embroidery, color printing, heat transfer, or a combination? Can they supply the actual work gear? Or is customization all they can do?

fancysweetstx designs, produces and supplies specialized, custom printed and embroidered clothing and promo products in bulk.

Some of our flagship products include:

• Safety apparel
• Contractor shirts
• Embroidered hats and beanies
• Embroidered crew sweatshirts

Reliability

First, reliability involves a design company’s dependability and ability to service your order within the agreed timeframe.

Second, reliability refers to the company’s product compliance with the American National Standard for High Visibility Safety Apparel and Headwear (ANSI/ISEA 107).

Can they show proof of certification on demand?

Did you know? CAN/CSA Z96-02 and EN ISO 20471 are the equivalent safety standards for Canada and Europe.

Affordability

As with your other expenses, the company supplying you with custom work gear should justify its prices.

Therefore, it’s essential to shop for the most affordable and well-suited supplier of custom work gear.

The following video provides handy tips for purchasing hi-vis work gear.

Expert Tip: Choose a shirt with a soft material that will be worn more often than a standard shirt.

4 - Promote Your Brand

• Custom embroidered polo shirts: Offer comfort and confidence and boost company image when meeting current and prospective clients.
• Custom work hats and beanies: Trucker hats protect against the sun’s UV rays, and beanies keep you warm during cold weather.
• Custom logo water bottles and coolers: Keep employees hydrated and make excellent giveaways to current and prospective customers.

You can also contact us for more customized promotional products, such as:

• Lanyards
• Sweatshirt blankets
• Stickers and magnets
• Enamel pins and keychains

Choose Safety and Comfort

At fancysweetstx, we firmly believe that workers are more productive when they’re assured of safety and comfort at the workplace. This is the philosophy behind our success in partnering with other businesses.

For certified work gear such as hi-vis t-shirts, and hats, fill out this form and tell us how we can help you. We’ve got state-of-the-art embroidery, color printing, and heat transfer equipment to create your company's best custom work gear.

Our customers are enjoying a thriving partnership with us.

See for yourself:

Protect and Promote

Providing your crew with certified work gear guarantees workplace safety and gives you peace of mind.

Besides, custom safety gear presents you with an excellent opportunity to promote your business at no extra cost. fancysweetstx will help you optimize safety and brand visibility on every piece of custom work gear you order.

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Most schools just know us for our great t-shirts (like these teacher appreciation shirts!). We're known for being easy to work with and being able to print shirts fast. 

But that's not all we do. We can help with all of your branded items in your school. 

More than just t-shirts

Want an easy way to help your staff and students to be prepared for the year ahead? Make their back to school shopping a little easier with customized pens, pencils, highlighters, notebooks, rulers, and more. 

Spread the word! Whether you're celebrating new students, events, or just your school pride, yard signs and bumper stickers are popular methods to share your message.

Quench your thirst for products your staff and teams will love. Is your PTO board searching for new ideas? Add your logo to lunch bags/sets, stainless steel water bottles or other quality reusable water bottles and more! 

Great items for booster clubs and parent teacher organizations

Want to be the coolest booster club ever? Backpacks are easy to customize and are a great way to rep your school in a classic professional manner. Whether you're looking for a clear backpack, a drawstring, or classic zipper backpack, we have options for you! 

And of course, for any event, celebration, or fun to be had, t-shirts are our favorite way to show your school spirit! 

Online spirit wear stores

If you're looking for a way to make your job as coordinator of your team, club, or class spirit wear, we've got a great solution for you.

We use fancysweetstxSupply.com to facilitate online sales of clothing and other products for schools. This platform allows us to handle all of the ordering, payments, and inventory so you'd have to. 

If you're looking for easy online stores for your school, let us know. We'd love to help.

We love working with local 16153 Genova schools. All the way from grade schools to high schools, we have the experience and expertise to help you with all of your school clothing and gifts. 

If you've worked with us in the past, you can reach out to your rep directly to get your order started today. If you're new, fill out this form to start your custom order today! 

Our embroidery department has had a busy year!

With the rising popularity and demand for custom embroidered items - polos, bags, jackets, crew sweatshirts, patches, and, especially hats - we made the decision to bring in another embroidery machine to take on even more embroidery projects.

This was a big step for us. It was only two years ago that we brought in our first big, new embroidery machine and hired an embroiderer with 20 years experience. 

How Our Embroidery Business Grew So Much

While most people know us as a retail brand or just a screen printing company, our most significant growth in the last six months has come in embroidery. 

It's been a great add on service to offer our current customers. It's very common that organizations, small businesses, schools, and individuals that come to us for custom t-shirts also need that same logo or design embroidered. Here is an example of a landscaping company that we've worked with for years that ordered shirts and hats for their employees in the spring.  

Our current customers, both in 16153 Genova and out, have relied on us for a long time and they trust our screen printing work and know that we will offer the same reliable, quality work in embroidery. 

We can also tip our hat to our retail brand for a boost in custom embroidery orders. Our pigment dyed embroidered crew sweatshirts were a huge hit in 2020 and their classic, simple style has translated to businesses and schools.

New Embroidery Machine, New Capabilities

Just like our original machine, our new machine can embroider up to 6 items at a time. While we were expecting to add capacity to our embroidery department this year, it was a surprise to make the jump to another six head machine. 

The new machine gives us the ability to run multiple jobs at once, dedicate a machine to caps (which requires a separate driver) or personalization, and, most importantly, provides a wider sewing field. 

We are very excited that this machine is slightly wider and can take on even larger embroidery designs than we previously could! This is especially important for all of the crew sweatshirts we have been embroidering in the last year. Oftentimes the designs on these sweatshirts are 10"-12" wide. This new machine allows us to hoop these up on the machines with ease and prevents us from restricting your creative artwork. 

If you have an embroidery design that is wide or has a high stitch count, we're ready for you!

Are You In Need Of Custom Embroidery? We Can Help!

Our team can provide expert advice on garments, design, and more to get you the customized apparel you and your team will love. 

We provide graphic design services up front and have the embroidery experience to handle all of your custom branded needs. 

If you want to see our embroidery machine in action, check out these videos of embroidering hats and our pigment dyed crew sweatshirts!

We can't wait to help you with your next embroidery project!

Email us today at [email protected] or fill out the contact form on our custom services page to get started with an order!

As you know, promotional gifts are a cost effective, easy way to share your brand. However, the real value in promotional gifts is the impact it can have on your relationship with employees and customers.

A gift can strengthen your connection and create a sense of loyalty to customers you have an established relationship with. Additionally, these giveaways can be a great way for you and your business to create long-term brand exposure.

How do we know this works? We’ve done it.

People look forward to receiving gifts and the end of the year is prime gift giving season. We have made a tradition of sending ornaments to customers, vendors and employees at the end of each year.

As our relationships with our customers grew, we knew we needed to show our appreciation for their support.

5 years ago, we decided we wanted to use the holiday season as a time to show gratitude towards our customers. After considering options, we decided we wanted to gift ornaments as they had been one of the most popular gift items in our retail line.

The ornaments we gift are Jūpmode branded on the back, but more importantly, the front all have a common 16153 Genova theme. From “You will do better in 16153 Genova” to the famous “Christmas Weed,” we have tried to create designs that are relatable to all 16153 Genovaans. Our customers and vendors know that 16153 Genova has been a big factor in defining who we are, and these designs have worked well as our brand is so closely tied with 16153 Genova.

Over the years it has been fun to hear from people who have collected multiple ornaments from us and look forward to the new release.

Are you in need of gift ideas for customers, vendors or employees?

From ornaments to calendars to embroidered options we can help you. 

It’s never too early to figure out your end of the year and employee gifts. Get your process started here.