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How Can Pocket Knives Engraved With Your Logo Make You More Money?

If you are a business owner, you are always looking for ways to increase your income. You know that promotional products are useful, long-lasting, and appreciated. You can’t say that about a newspaper ad.

Pocket knives engraved with your logo offer these benefits to your bottom line:

  1. They last forever. Who ever throws away a pocket knife?

    Happy Customers
    Happy Customers
  2. How often does a person use a pocket knife? Cutting string, opening Amazon packages, and cutting wood are common uses for a knife.
  3. Your customers will remember who gave them this valuable gift. They will appreciate your generosity and buy from you many times in the future.

Give Buck Knives For Christmas and Spread Your Joy

Buck Knives make the perfect Christmas gift. Even women use them for opening

Buck Knives for Christmas
Buck Knives for Christmas

boxes and cutting things around the house.

Here are the best reasons:

  • Buck is an American company, and most of the knives are made in the USA.
  • Buck is a household word. Everyone has heard of a Buck knife.
  • Buck stands for the highest quality is steel and workmanship.
  • Buck knives are useful gifts.
  • They are long-lasting, and covered by the Buck Forever Warranty.
  • Everyone appreciates a quality Buck knife.

The Newest Knife With Your Logo

1938Trail Blazer Knife & PaulRizzo
1938Trail Blazer Knife & Paul Rizzo

Are you looking for a new unique knife gift for your customers? The Trail Blazer Pocket Knife 1938 has arrived. It was introduced by Compass Promos at the OPPA product show in Cleveland Ohio in January 2018. Paul Rizzo, the company representative is shown here with the knife fully open. For a light weight knife, it is a full 4 inches long. It is light because of the minimalist handle design. As a bonus, it has the features on a multi-tool, with a carabiner, bottle opener, screwdriver, serrated blade, and a gut hook. The hook can be used to safely open a blister pack.

 

Barlow Knives Company Gets Sold For the Third Time

65010 Small Rosewood Pocketknife-Gold
65010  Barlow Small Rosewood Pocketknife-Gold

Quick History of the Barlow Knife Co.

The famous Barlow Knives are well-known by people who appreciate a well-made, quality business gift. They were originally made in the USA by Barlow, a company that was based in Los Angeles CA from 1930 to 2005. Barlow made pocket knives, key chains, and money clips and imprinted the customer’s logo on them. This was very popular for businesses to promote themselves to their customers. Barlow products had a lifetime Warranty. If the if the items broke, or failed, the end user could just mail it to Barlow for a repacement. The shipping both ways was paid for by the end user. After 12 years, we still get inquiries about this warranty, which is no longer available.

Barlow Consort Knife
Barlow Consort Knife
  1. In 2005 the promotional product industry giant, Norwood bought them. Production was kept in China, where Barlow transferred it in 2003, just 2 years before the sale.
  2. Then in June 2009, the Great Recession forced Norwood Promotional Products Holdings, Inc. to declare bankruptcy. So the Barlow Knives brand was once again sold. This time, BIC Graphic North America, another giant, bought Norwood at auction for $162.5 Million. BIC kept the Norwood brand and the little Barlow brand.
  3. Probably the inability to make enough profit forced BIC to sell in June 2017. HIG Capital bought BIC Graphic North America and its Asian sourcing Division for a mere $80 Million. The sales at the time were over $300 Million, according to Bizjournals.com. So this is the third time that the Barlow brand was sold. HIG Capital of Miami FL is a huge company with $21 Billion in equity capital under management. Promotional products are not new to them. They bought Halo, a promotional product distributor, in 2003, and sold it in 2007. The selling price was $62.5 Million. So the $80 Million price it paid for BIC was a real bargain.

It is expected that HIG will continue the same service and products, and do well in this market. Hopefully, the Barlow brand will continue.