Merch Mariner | Not your typical custom 'swag' company.

We’ve created a fresh approach to buying brand merchandise. It's built on decades of earned lessons, focused client experience, principled sourcing and inspired design. Our mission is to be your trusted brand steward and expert purveyor in the navigation, curation and application of story driven brand goods, custom apparel, branded gear and corporate gifts. How is our approach different? Below, we've listed just a few ways:

• Experienced Insight - No coincidence this is first on our list. Based on our twenty six years of experience we’ve created our own customer journey built to optimize your experience, production transparency and to mitigate project risk. 
• Expert Approach - Marketing professionals will appreciate our detailed project navigation. We deploy a scalable process that gets to the heart of your merch buying purpose and alleviates potential issues before they happen.
• Better Application - Ideation for elevating the brand merch experience for your intended audience to exceed campaign deliverables. The goal:  Stay the course and raise the flag on telling your brand story.

• Better Design - Good design impacts all facets of branding merch and graphic designers often specialize in specific areas of design. We are careful about pairing you with a designer in our network that fits your brand style and overall needs. From illustrations, typography-driven efforts or caricatures, you aren't limited to designers on staff.

• eCommerce Portals - The saturation of eCommerce platforms can make it hard to distinguish which type of merch shop is right for your company. We explore your needs and steer you toward what's right for your organization, whether it be a full fledged company store, or pop up shop or a peer-to-peer gifting service.

• Straightforward Consulting - Even if you're happy with your current promotional products distributor, our experience in various supply chain roles can provide insight, savings and an improvement in how you interact and set expectations for your relationship with them. Our consulting service is hourly or project based and is ideal for either new brand merch buyers or experienced ones looking to confirm the value they're receiving.       

• Brand Name Focused - We break through the clutter of millions of products available and laser focus on the brands that sync well with your brand and overall merch needs. 

• Decoration Method Obsessed - Technology has evolved how products are decorated and we are astute learners of what new and old methods fit the varied type of products and which ones aren't quite ready for prime time.

• Domestic 'RUSH' Service - A narrowed focus on just the top factories who are best structured to successfully produce branded goods on an expedited service level. Rush can be goods that are produced as quickly as 1 day to up to 5 business days depending on the product and decoration type.       

• Curated Merch Packs - Kitting and bundled merch packs have become a popular trend but we focus on simplicity, messaging & personalized impact.           

• Proprietary Product Scoring - We assign a scored value to our approved products when they are considered for your use. So, a single product may rank differently based on the brand identity we are pairing it with. This MBF (Merch + Brand Factor) ensures that the products chosen for your project aren't just great quality but fuse well with your overall brand ethos.       

• Principled Sourcing Approach - Yes, we strive to work with factories with ethical, responsible and safety manufacturing standards but also those who focus on design and functionality.

• Product Development - Private label for retail or creating collectibles, we can assist in engineering a product or line of products that are truly your own.                             

 In Merch Mariner, we’ve built a custom brand merch company centered around one idea. To help you Discover Your Brand Bounty™ where collaborative service, thoughtful sourcing and smart design is at the core of helping you tell your brand story through branded merchandise with authenticity.

We hope you consider us as your new corporate gifting partner and brand merch provider this holiday season. Reach out to schedule a discovery meeting with us today.