First and foremost, you should look for a vendor who is in the business for over 3 to 5 years as the churning in this business is very high and you should avoid dealing with a half learned entrepreneur who is going to do trial based on your order and end up cutting a sorry figure. Again avoid giving large and new items order to a new vendor as the experience for everyone involved may not be too good! With an experienced vendor the chances of nasty surprises are less as over the years they have picked up experience and good exposure to what not to do to keep you meaningfully satisfied. Always better to start with small orders and slowly build the trust and confidence in the capability of a new vendor to avoid nasty surprises.
Always look out and work with an empowered team against one man show operations as that ensures the bandwidth of the vendor is very high resulting in mega benefits for your organisation. The bare minimum advantage of a team is more variety of the products and access to a knowledge pool which makes it easy for the team to come with solutions and viable finished samples at the most cost effective rates and scope of fulfilling deliveries within the assured timelines.
There can be umpteen sub reasons but the main reasons are the above two and you should be crystal clear every time as to your primary objective of either increasing sales or enhancing relationship while giving away the 
The cheapest cap one can get is the Aam Aadmi political party cap popularized by the new political party at Delhi, India. The price is the lowest point and looks like the famous Gandhi cap. From this single digit to high 3 figure price in Indian Rupees is due to fabric and finishing to make it look even impressive on a millionaire at a golf course. 
Pens are used by all literates and is the most common product to carry with oneself. The use is so vast that it will be found at all mass visited public counters as a must tool to fill up the forms etc. Pen is the most common item borrowed by the general public in any queue to fill and sign up the forms. Many times it happens that strangers forgets to return the pen after use and because of this particular reason the smart ones uses the cost effective ones. Smart loaners remember to keep the cap of the pen with themselves so that both are reminded to return after use. Few smarter ones even keeps two pens one for their own use and cheaper ones to loan to others so that they do not regret the loss of expensive pens. 
Most new products are launched with branding on a 
Whoever thought of first to print the logo on the t-shirt and distribute it must be a genius as till date it remains the best business gift idea. Imagine you have the front, back and even both the shoulders to convey your message on human beings who will proudly wear and display it during day & night and both at outdoor & indoor as the night or leisure dress. Depending on your budget and target audience you can have 
The first time I experienced a mouse pad was around middle of 1990’s when EPSON Company was distributing it free at an expo with their message and there was a big queue of general public to get one for themselves. Within no time stocks were coming and were getting over as the interest of general public was more in getting free mousepad then checking on Epson printers. We were the only partners of genuine Epson ink cartridges at Bangalore and were handling their desk for the consumable supplies at the IT exhibition. Sushmita Sen, Miss Universe was the brand ambassador for Epson which also added to the whole mystique as the mousepad was carrying her images with details of the new printer just launched. Around beginning of 2001 we started manufacturing 
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To keep our regular clients 