By: Minesh Modi
Submitted: 2009-04-03 22:24:01 | Word Count: 1028
Leather accessories are a perfect corporate gift to be given around this festive season as they are ideal gifts to support your fund raising activities, encourage dealers, thank employees, celebrate anniversaries, commemorate special occasions or promote your corporate image.
Leather a material that was an ancient boon is still known to many as a sturdy and versatile material. It has become an essential material used in our day to day life. It has diverse use and applications. In prehistoric time leather was used to make coats which served the clothing purpose. Later on as time passed its many other uses were discovered. In the middle east previously people use to make water bottles out of leather as water remains cool and fresh in leather bags. Since the heat is at it s peak in the Middle East it served as an ideal cooling agent. Today apart from clothing and footwear, leather is used to make many other different products like tents, beds, rugs, carpets etc. Many people in India and abroad use leather being a strong and attractive material, different types of leather accessories.
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Different types for different consumption
Some of the leather accessories comprise of stylish belts that are loved by the female as well as male gender. These belts are ornamented with gemstones, oxidized metals etc that give the belts an attractive and rich look. Other products seen are wallets for men that come in different well to do appearance, some of them even have a steel chain or key chain attached to it, to give it a masculine look. When one is talking about leather accessories one can never forget the beautifully crafted leather purses for women, there are tremendous range of purses in size and color that suit every girl, dress and look matching the occasion or event. Then there are portfolios and bags that serve as your best office and personal travel partner. Other leather accessories which has gained immense importance in corporate offices are desktop items like pen holder, card holder, frames, book covers, passport holders, laptop bags, etc in different designs and style used for personal consumption and gifting. They are ideal for office and home decor. Leather accessories are very durable and are available in many colors like black, brown, red, green, royal blue, pink, burgundy and tan to suit modern fashion trends. They are first choice of many pharmaceutical companies who give away leather accessories as gifts to doctors, dealers etc, also many IT sectors, Service industries and corporate are also known to go for leather accessories as gifts to their respective clients and employees. During the peak festive season these industries are known to buy bulk quantities starting from minimum 5,00 and can also go beyond 20,000 or more. These products also suit as best promotional tool during important events, launches and other relevant occasions.
Perfect present for one and all sectors
Gifting trend in India is on revolution spree and with the coming of MNCs & giant corporate houses, gifting has become the center of attention. Now almost all industries like Pharma, IT Sector, Service Industries etc are participating in the gifting game. Recently since the last five years or more leather accessories have gained immense popularity in the corporate gifting industry. Since there are varieties in leather accessories, they are given away as gifts by engraving a corporate logo on it for promotions. These can be given during different corporate events like one can always gift leather accessories with a bulk purchase done by your client or when your company announces it s new range of products, during trade shows or one can always use such valuable gifts to motivate staff with incentive premiums. Also these products can be given away after a sales meeting as a parting gift. It is very pensive for a company to promote with accessories made of leather as leather is valued and appreciated more than any other materials. Moreover leather is more likely to be kept and used by the recipient and leather styles serve a valuable service and are used many times in a day by the recipient. The perfect mix of style and utilization in leather accessories makes it an ultimate necessity in creating a modern and contemporary home or office. Further the dark leather exudes in the leather product conveys the feeling of strength and power. Elegant, yet practical leather accessories are a perfect corporate gifts to be given around this festive season as they are ideal gifts to support your fund raising activities, encourage dealers, thank employees, celebrate anniversaries, commemorate special occasions or promote your corporate image.
Expansive range of Indian market suppliers
Presently in the marketing scenario of leather accessories, predominantly 90 per cent of the domestic market is catered by the unorganized sector, Dharavi in Mumbai being a prime location for it. Also there are many other cities like Bangalore, Hyderabad and many more locations that sell leather accessories. Sources say that over all in the last few years taking into account the retailing and corporate gifting sector the leather accessories market has seen approximately 55 60 growth. Apart form the unorganized group many big organized branded companies like HIDESIGN etc are also known to supply quality leather accessories mainly focussing on promotional and corporate gifting. HIDESIGN has around 8 outlets in Mumbai and over all approximately 34 35 outlets across India. It s main base being in Pondicherry the company is wholly into wholesale and corporate gifting business. It has come out with new range of it s products for this festive season like travel accessories, hotel products, bottle openers, crafted mirrors, CD cases, trays, desktop items, pen holders and many more made out of pure leather. Indeed their products serve as best corporate giveaways.
To conclude one can say that India has become a vast warehouse for leather products and accessories. Since the last couple of years, leather products and leather accessories from India are in demand worldwide. In such a big industry one is sure to find the best pick suitable for it s corporate gifting which also fits well in their budget and is not harsh on the pocket. So what are you going to buy this year??.
