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Onboarding kits, classroom rewards, training program collateral, swag that actually gets used.
THE NUMBER
$3.5B
13% of US promo sales
The education and internal-use market.
Education is the single largest market in the US promotional products industry, accounting for 13% of total sales — roughly $3.5 billion annually. Schools, universities, training programs, and HR onboarding departments together drive consistent, recurring merch purchases.
SOURCE: ASI Counselor State of the Industry 2025
Gear that survives onboarding and gets used at the desk.
What internal-use buyers order — beyond the lanyard and the cheap pen.
New-hire onboarding kits
Branded notebooks, water bottles, hoodies, welcome cards — boxed and ready to ship to the home address of every new hire before their start date.
Training program collateral
Workbooks, certificates of completion, course-branded apparel, breakout-room signage. Custom per cohort, repeatable across cohorts.
Classroom & student rewards
T-shirts, water bottles, drawstring bags, recognition pins — for K-12, higher ed, and after-school programs. School-store-ready when needed.
Employee recognition awards
Engraved tumblers, custom jackets, milestone plaques — five years, ten years, twenty. The kind of awards people actually keep on the shelf.
Conference & all-hands gear
Branded swag bags, lanyards, custom apparel for events your people will actually wear afterward.
Wellness & culture programs
Step-challenge water bottles, mental-health-month tees, DEI program merch — branded carefully, made well, not performative.
What it looks like in the office.
Onboarding kit — branded notebook, bottle, hoodie, welcome card — 500-hire annual rollout
Custom training certificate set — leadership cohort program
Ten-year anniversary engraved jacket — long-tenure recognition program
K-8 reading program t-shirt — district-wide rollout
All-hands tote bag — annual conference, 1,200 attendees
Engraved milestone tumbler — five-year service award
Work-example images coming as we shoot them.
What we deliver consistently.
Per-employee box-and-ship — individual home address fulfillment for distributed-workforce onboarding
School-compliant materials — CPSIA-compliant goods for K-12 student programs when required
Bulk fixed-price programs — locked pricing for recurring cohort programs and annual training cycles
Brand-asset management — your logo and brand standards stored once, applied consistently across orders
Tax-exempt & PO billing — school-district, nonprofit, and university accounts handled in-house
ASI distributor since 1999 — full catalog access, all supplier programs, account-level pricing
Turnaround
10–14 business days
Standard
5 days on stock items
Rush
12 pieces
Min order
Onboarding kit programs run on a continuous-fulfillment basis — we hold stock and ship per-hire as your HR system signals start dates.
What HR and L&D buyers actually ask.
Can you ship onboarding kits to each new hire's home address?
Yes — individual home-address fulfillment is one of our most-requested programs. You send the names and addresses (CSV or via API), we ship each kit, you get a single invoice. Welcome-letter personalization available.
Do you handle school-district POs and tax-exempt billing?
Yes. K-12 districts, universities, and nonprofits handled in-house with net-30 PO terms standard. Send your exemption certificate once and your rep tags every future order correctly.
We have brand standards — can you enforce them across all orders?
Yes. We store your brand-asset library once — logos, colors, fonts, placement rules — and apply them consistently regardless of who on your team places the order. Brand drift is the single biggest complaint we hear about internal-promo programs; we solve for it.
Can we run a recurring monthly onboarding program with fixed pricing?
Yes. Annual contracts with locked per-kit pricing are standard. We hold stock at the supplier, ship per-hire on demand, and reconcile monthly.
Do you do CPSIA-compliant goods for student programs?
Yes — children's-product safety compliance handled when programs are directed at K-12 audiences. We carry compliance documentation for every applicable SKU.
What's the minimum order for a one-off recognition piece?
Twelve pieces on most goods, six on some engraved categories. Smaller runs are possible but the per-unit cost climbs fast — we'll tell you up front whether it's worth doing.
NOW RECRUITING
This division is looking for its lead.
We're not hiring a salesperson. We're recruiting an HR director, an L&D leader, a school administrator, or someone who's built workplace culture from inside an organization and is tired of selling other people's stuff. You bring the network — your old peers, your trade groups, the people you've already earned trust with. We bring an ASI distributor account running since 1999, full catalog and brand-asset infrastructure, and the back office.
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