Corporate Merchandise Programmes

What are CMP's?
Corporate Merchandise Programmes offer clients a fully managed and cost-effective promotional merchandise and branding service. This is achieved by BlueFish supplying merchandise, branded with your corporate designs and holding them in stock for immediate picking, packing and despatch at any time.
Benefits of a CMP
The benefits to clients are numerous and tangible, they include the following:

Reduced Costs - by ordering merchandise in bulk, clients benefit from huge cost savings due to the economies of scale of mass production.  The savings generally outweigh the cost of setting up and running the programme.
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Fast Turnaround - because products are held in stock, clients can order them for immediate delivery within just 24/48 hours.  This is a huge time saving and allows companies to be confident that even last-minute events can be fully branded with corporate materials. This element is especially useful for products that traditionally have longer lead times and/or are produced outside of the UK.

Brand Protection - by ordering stock of your promotional items in advance, you can ensure that all products follow you brand guidlines and corporate style.  This means that every promotional item that bears your brand has a consistent look, style, message and quality.

Online Ordering 24/7 - for most of our programmes we will set up an online portal so that clients can place orders at any time, from anywhere.  We can tailor the system to the requirements of the client and include elements such as minimum order quantities, cost centres, ordering tiers and authorisation.  Part of the system is a suite of management reports that are produced weekly so clients know exactly what they have in stock at any given moment in time.

These are just some of the headline benefits of Corporate Merchandise Programmes.  There are many other reasons to consider utilising our programmes such as auto-reordering, flexible delivery logistics, full warehousing facilities and dedicated account management.

If you think that your organisation could benefit from a BlueFish Corporate Merchandise Programme then get in touch and talk to one of our CMP experts.

World Wide Sourcing

Worldwide sourcing for innovative, yet sustainable products, only comes from having years of experience and expertise; this is what we offer that few, if any, other companies can.

Our team combines well over 50 years of relationship building with factories, suppliers, manufacturers and freight forwarders all over the UK, EU and the rest of the world. This means that at BlueFish we know that we can always offer clients something unique, beautifully manufactured and cost-effective. 

Compliance

BlueFish Promotional Merchandise is proud to announce that the company is celebrating after being awarded Platinum Status by EcoVadis, the world’s largest and most trusted independent provider of business sustainability ratings.

​The accolade means that BlueFish Promotional Merchandise now ranks in the top 1% of the 75,000 companies rated worldwide each year by EcoVadis.
EcoVadis has become a long-established partner for more than 200 global multinational companies including L’Oréal, Coca Cola Enterprises, Nestle, Pernod Ricard and Johnson and Johnson.

​Len DeCandia, Global Chief Procurement Officer at Johnson & Johnson, explained: “By partnering with our suppliers, we can strengthen the social, environmental and economic performance of our supply chain. EcoVadis helps us to map our supplier conformance to Johnson & Johnson responsibility standards.”
Platinum is the highest medal of recognition that EcoVadis awards. To gain it, we were assessed on a comprehensive range of criteria across four key ‘pillars’ – environment, labour and human rights, sustainable procurement, and ethics.
EcoVadis’s methodology is built on international sustainability standards, including the Global Reporting Initiative, the United Nations Global Compact and the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
Russ Platt, Business Director, commented:
“Both our clients and our team care deeply about the source of the products that we supply. We are committed to ensuring that they conform to internationally recognised standards and are produced ethically and safely, with awareness of both the environment and fair treatment of workers. We are working so that wherever possible our products will be sustainable.”
​“When we first achieved an Ecovadis rating we were all so proud to be recognised as Gold standard, this time we have gone one better and achieved Platinum. This is testament to the project team who have worked so hard to make continuous improvements across the business and supply chain, and the fact that sustainability principles feature in everything we do.”
Paul Green, MD Galpeg added: “Encouraging sustainable operations across the entire value chain has been a key part of our corporate strategy for many years. I’m delighted that we have been awarded Platinum accreditation by EcoVadis, which recognises our work in reducing environmental impact across our entire business.”
BlueFish Promotional Merchandise (a trading name of Galpeg Limited)
Compliance and CSR
When selecting a partner for your promotional products, buyers need to ask one question.....
Has every product that bears our company name been manufactured ethically at every stage of production?
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Compliance and social responsibility are more than just buzz words, they are our ethos upon which every factory that produces products for us must adhere to.
Our CSR policy is the most comprehensive in the industry and our sourcing procedures & standards have been independently audited, giving us Ecovadis Platinum Accreditation. Our score puts us in the top 1% of our industry and means that every customer can be confident in us for their merchandise every single time.
Furthermore, our ISO9001 and ISO14001 certification means that BlueFish systems, quality and eco credentials are all second-to-none and clients can once again be confident in our ability to provide the perfect promotional product service

Merchandise & Product Design

The BlueFish In-house design service - it's brilliant and it's free!
There is no way to say this without sounding somewhat arrogant, but here goes; the BlueFish design studio is by far the best and most comprehensive in the whole of the promotional industry.

What do we offer?
Our studio looks after your brand.
Rather than taking a logo and just placing it onto a product, we look at the best way to reflect your corporate image.  Sometimes it's simple and other times we will make recommendations as to how to see your logo on an item and sometimes we might even suggest using a different product.
It's all about making sure that the products we produce are reflective of your brand.

Corporate Guidelines
Where clients have set corporate guidelines or a 'brand book', we aim to become guardians of this and will always work within these restraints.  This works best when we are able to liaise with Marketing or Communications teams to ensure that we produce precisely what clients are expecting and what is permitted.
Bespoke Products
Our studio team have a vast background in design, with a specialisation for bespoke products.  
In promotional terms this often relates to bespoke bags (which could be for specific products, specified colours, unusual sizes, specific materials etc.), metal goods (such as custom-shaped keyrings, badges and pins) and plastic injection moulded items (such as water bottles, keyrings, rulers and coasters).
In reality our studio can design anything that is in your imagination, and our production team will get it made!
Free service
We are pleased to offer 90% of our design work free of charge, we have to create artwork to enable us manufacture the the product, so we do not pass this charge on to our customers.
The only time that we may make a charge is for a completely bespoke complicated product where there are no technical drawings in existence. We would always quote on this before commencing and this service is usually refundable upon placement of an order for that product - so it's really still free!