Author Archives: Pens4Business

The highly popular Santorini ballpen gets funky with new gloss lacquered colours on a white aluminium barrel. Supplied with a high quality Parker style black ink refill with a long lasting 5,000 metre write out length. View the range here.

Superb quality and a stylish design have taken the Verona ballpen to the number one position as the best selling pen in our premium Inovo Design range. Two new colours, gloss red and white are now also available giving the Verona even greater appeal! Click here to view the Verona ballpen range.

A new stylish keyring with an easy to use pull and twist style mechanism in silver imitation platinum with an eco-friendly bamboo leather strap and contrasting stitching. What is Bamboo Leather? An eco-friendly plant based material which uses bamboo fibres to create a yarn woven into a soft, but highly durable fabric. It is biodegradable…

In the digital world of today an attractive creative visual can make a significant difference to help enhance an idea and illustrate how the right product can be used to promote a brand identity. From a simple distributor’s brief we can provide attractive creative visuals to illustrate our products to your customers. All we need…

Made at our factory in Derbyshire for over 40 years we are proud to be one of the few remaining manufacturers of high quality keyfobs. This stalwart of the promotional industry is still a firm favourite and it’s made in Britain!  

Following a long period of development work the new Verona is finally due to arrive next month. Designed in-house to a high specification, specifically for our Inovo Design range of premium pens, the Verona is a superbly crafted twist action ballpen. No gimmicks here just a stylish high quality product at a reasonable price, to…

There is currently a definite trend in the promotional product industry for end user companies looking to move away from high volume low cost single use promotional items, with a greater focus on high quality products which are used by the target audience for a longer period of time. A typical example are low cost…

A typical low cost plastic promotional pen will write for approximately 1,000 metres or even less and many contain refills which are sealed into the pen and cannot be replaced or the type of refill is not available from retail shops. Artistica writing instruments which are fitted with high quality Parker style G2 size refills…

Following numerous requests from the trade and a long period of development work with our pen suppliers in the Far East, we have introduced three new products for our Premium Inovo Design range and a new push action ballpen for the lower cost Artistica range. The new ranges are featured on the pages detailed below…

The promotional writing instrument industry is awash with cheap and often unreliable products manufactured by huge companies in China supplying a worldwide mass market. Many of these companies are set up to manufacture products as cheaply as possible which is very often to the detriment of the product. Inovo Design is completely different. The pens…

Our new Pens 4 Business trade catalogue will be launched in early January 2020. Featuring several new products and colours for both the Inovo Design and Artistica ranges. To download a high resolution digital plain version of the catalogue with no reference to Crown Products Lrd, please click here: crown-products.co.uk/Pens-4-Business-Catalogue-2020.pdf

In future all of our A-reference imported keyrings will be supplied in 50% recycled PE bubble bags and bulk packed in 90% recycled card boxes. The single use gift box with a plastic flocked insert and sleeve has now been discontinued, reducing the amount of single use plastic packaging by 85%! Our pen ranges will…

Fashions change and trends in graphic design are no different! The latest trend in graphics has seen a move away from three dimensional effects in favour of more minimalistic flatter designs with solid fields of colour. The latest rebrand for VW is a case in point. The new style logo has been simplified and now…

With design inspiration from knurled control knobs, hybrid ink technology and a streamlined tapered barrel, the Nebula ballpen is a bright new star from Inovo Design! The Nebula has been exclusively developed for Inovo Design with a bright chrome plated barrel and smooth matt black lacquering, ideal for mirror laser engraving. Stand out from the…

The write out length of a refill is very often over looked when purchasing promotional pens and it can vary significantly from ballpen to ballpen.

Following our recent survey on the use of the paper catalogue, we have received some very interesting comments, especially from the veterans in the trade! The majority of the replies were in favour of keeping the paper catalogue, however in the region of 40% of distributors use it infrequently or not at all and prefer…

Introduced over ten years ago the original Sakhir ballpen was a ground breaking design in the world of promotional pens with its unique cut out multi barrel design. An inner barrel and outer barrel sandwich a fine woven wire mesh and having a resemblance to the front grille of a car, ensured the product was…

Very few products in the advertising and promotional gift industry stand the test of time quite like the old faithful medallion keyfob. Introduced by Crown Products in 1978 when the company was first established as a manufacturer of stainless steel giftwear, the humble medallion keyfob is still in production and identical in design! Manufactured from…