While expanding and changing rapidly, the Promotional Products Industry is relatively mature with a well established network of manufacturers, importers, decorators and other specialists ready to produce merchandise as quickly as possible.

There are in excess of 2000 distributors in Australia but only 200 or so are full service distributors offering the full range of products and associated services. The balance of distributors are small shops and specialists that only offer a single product or service or a narrow band of services to a niche industry sector.

The mark of a professional full service distributor is membership in APPA, the industry body and we strongly recommend only ever dealing with APPA members.

Distributor sales in Australia are worth in excess of $2.2 billion dollars per annum and these figures continue to grow well in excess of inflation each year due to the outstanding value for marketing money obtained from promotional products.