Corporate merchandise for Adelaide brands
Most briefs here start with a date and half an idea. We take both and run with them, curating the product, customising it to your brand and producing it locally or offshore depending on the job. Corporate merchandise Adelaide brands are glad to hand out, ready before the doors open.
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Take your Adelaide brand to the next level
Your employees and customers are at the heart of your brand. We create branded merchandise Adelaide businesses use to spark pride, connection and loyalty, from an onboarding kit for a new starter on North Terrace to a cellar door range that visitors carry home from the Barossa.
Branded by Dashing is a branded merchandise partner headquartered at 27 Sirius Road, Lane Cove West, Sydney, with a second Australian office in Richmond, Melbourne. We curate, customise and produce merchandise for Australian brands, locally or through our own office in Shanghai, and deliver it to the dates you set. We have been doing it for over twenty years, and we are part of Dashing Group.
Adelaide & Australian brands that have merchandised with purpose:
From your idea to their hands, before the doors open
Nobody starts with a blank page, least of all in event season. You have a date in the diary, a team to kit out or a cellar door to stock, and usually a fair idea of what it should be. Our job is to turn that into something people actually keep. Adelaide runs on events, so we plan backwards from the day, and the day does not move.Curated, not catalogued. A short range chosen for your brand, your guests and your budget. Fewer options, better ones, settled in time for the date.
Customised properly. Decoration chosen for the product and where it will end up. Embroidery on aprons that get washed daily, print that reads across a crowded room, packaging that works on a cellar door shelf.Produced locally or offshore. Whichever route gets it finished before the date. Local when the diary is tight, our own office in Shanghai when the product is being made from scratch and the event is far enough out.Booked to the calendar. Timelines are set from your event date with freight included, so stock is finished and in position well before bump in. From Fringe season to the Royal Adelaide Show.Delivered to the venue. Packs and giveaways go straight to the Adelaide Convention Centre, Adelaide Oval or your festival site, labelled by stand or zone and counted before they leave us.
Cellar door and hospitality ready. Drinkware, aprons, bags and gift packs for wineries, venues and food brands across the Barossa, McLaren Vale and the Adelaide Hills.Twenty years of knowing what works. Which products last past the event, which decorations stay sharp, and which ideas are better in a deck than on a table by the door.
We’ve got every touchpoint covered
From someone's first day in the job to the last day of a campaign, we cover every point where your brand meets a person. Promotional merchandise and custom merchandise Adelaide brands can stand behind, delivered on the date it is needed.
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With you for any Adelaide occasion
Every moment your brand shows up in public is a moment worth getting right. Here is where we usually come in.
Conferences and expos
Delegate packs, lanyards, apparel and giveaways for events at the Adelaide Convention Centre, Adelaide Showground and Adelaide Oval. Delivered to the venue, checked and ready before the doors open.
Brand activations and events
Fringe season, sporting fixtures and street level campaigns. When the city fills up and couriers are stretched, the stock is already where it needs to be.
Retail launches
Store openings from Rundle Mall to Westfield Marion and Burnside Village. We produce at volume, hold the stock and get the right quantities to the right stores on the right day.
Onboarding and employer brand
Welcome packs for Adelaide offices, sent to home addresses one at a time as each person joins.
End of year and Christmas
Client and staff gifting locked in mid year rather than mid November. The good product goes early, and freight into December is nobody's friend.
Sustainable merch
Recycled and organic apparel, reusable drink ware and packaging that is not headed for landfill, plus onsite recycling and LED curing in our own production.
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We’ve worked with Branded several times for promotional items, from product launch giveaways to corporate team-building gifts, and they’ve consistently delivered excellent results. Every project has been handled with care, clear communication, and a genuine focus on quality. The attention to detail and reliability make the process smooth from start to finish, and the final products always meet expectations. It’s a team that’s easy to work with and one we’re happy to recommend
Working with Lauren has been an absolute pleasure! Her energy, creativity, and attention to detail make every collaboration seamless and impactful. Branded consistently delivers high-quality solutions with a personal touch that sets them apart.
"Lauren was exceptional from start to finish through creating our custom merch. Her responsiveness, attention to detail, and collaborative approach made the process effortless and enjoyable, resulting in products that our customers truly love."
I’ve loved working with the team at MyMerch. They’re responsive, easy to work with, and always bring great ideas to the table. Their attention to detail and ability to deliver high-quality, exciting products on time makes the whole process effortless. It’s rare to find a supplier who makes things this seamless - they’ve been an absolute pleasure to partner with.
Thanks again for our packs, they're amazing! Everyone loves them and we will definitely be doing another order.
Reaction upon receiving the custom merch for the campaign: "They do look fab! WOOHOO!!! Very happy!
Last year I worked with MyMerch on an order for the Foundation which is awesome! The team loved it so much that they would like to order more.
Frequently Asked Questions
Where do we start if we are not sure what we want?
Answer three questions and the rest gets easy. Who is receiving it, what do you want them to do with it, and what is the spend per person. The third does most of the filtering: a small per head budget points you at drinkware, stationery and bags, a mid range one opens up decent apparel and small gift sets, and above that you are into curated boxes and single premium pieces. Bring those three answers and we can skip the catalogue stage entirely. Most custom merchandise Adelaide brands are proud of started as a much vaguer idea than that.
What does it cost, and how much do we have to order?
Three things move the price, and quantity moves it most. The same hoodie can vary enormously between fifty units and five hundred. After that it is decoration: a single colour print is cheapest, embroidery costs more and wears better, and every extra colour or print position adds a setup charge. The mistake we see most often is a budget split across four products at low volume, when one product at higher volume would have bought better quality for the same money. We supply promotional products Adelaide wide at every budget, so tell us the number and we will tell you where it goes furthest.
How far ahead should we order for an Adelaide event?
Earlier than you think, and the reason is rarely production. It is artwork approval. Decide who has final sign off before you brief anyone, because a proof sitting in an inbox costs more days than freight does. Then two event specific things: most venues will not accept stock more than a day or two before bump in, and some charge handling to hold it, so delivery has to be timed rather than early. And across Fringe season the whole city is competing for the same couriers and the same loading docks, so anything landing in late February and March needs locking in months out.
Can we see it before we commit?
Yes, and here is what to check when it lands. Look at the logo from arm's length rather than up close, because that is how everyone else will see it. Check the decoration on the colour you are actually ordering, not a white sample, since thread and ink read completely differently on dark fabric. Then wash it. A print that cracks after one cycle is the most common complaint in this industry and it is entirely avoidable at sample stage.
What makes a good corporate gift?
Something the recipient would have bought for themselves. That means restraint on the branding and none on the product, because a cheap item with a big logo reads as advertising while a good item with a small one reads as a gift. Corporate gifts Adelaide clients actually keep tend to have a daily use: drinkware, a bag that holds up, good socks, something edible that is genuinely good. What gets binned is desk ornaments, novelty items and anything with a slogan.
Can you manage uniforms across multiple sites?
Yes, and the part worth getting right is sizing. Order a size run off headcount alone and you will be short at both extremes within a month. We work from sizing collected at onboarding, hold a buffer in the sizes that actually move, and set each site up to order replacements itself through B-Portal. For hospitality and cellar door teams, embroidery over print is worth the extra, because it survives commercial washing and halves how often corporate uniforms Adelaide venues put through a full service need replacing
How do our Adelaide sites order and reorder?
Through B-Portal, which exists to solve one specific problem. Head office loses control of the brand the moment ordering is decentralised, and loses control of the budget the moment it is not. Each venue, cellar door or department orders from one approved range within its own allocation, with an approval step you can switch on or off. You see live stock, proof of delivery and who is ordering what, so corporate merchandise Adelaide teams stay on brand without head office processing requests. Request a demo.
