Branded Umbrellas for Corporate Marketing Campaigns in the UK
Branded umbrellas are one of those tried-and-true promotional products that just keep on giving for UK corporate marketing campaigns. Unlike those fleeting flyers and discount pens that get chucked after one use, high-quality branded umbrellas increase brand recognition, get used every single day, and deliver a high perceived value that really makes your organisation look good
All iBrolly's custom branded umbrellas are built to last, out of sturdy materials that can withstand whatever the British weather throws at them. For marketing teams focused on getting a return on investment, durability, and consistent brand visibility, custom umbrellas offer a unique chance to combine everyday usefulness with top-notch brand presentation.
All our umbrellas are built to perform, featuring fibreglass ribs and an automatic opening that just makes life that bit easier.
Whether you're using them at events, handing them out as corporate gifts, or supplying them to staff and clients, professionally produced promotional umbrellas ensure your brand gets seen out in the real world — on city streets, at golf courses, and just about anywhere people like to gather outdoors.
Everyone needs an umbrella, which makes them a great choice for almost any target audience you can think of. The key is getting a quality one that will let your brand shine for years to come.
Branded Umbrellas
When it comes to branded umbrellas, quality is more than just a nice-to-have — it's a mobile advertising asset that gets your logo, colours, and messaging out there in front of customers, partners, and prospects every time someone opens it up. This repeated brand exposure is a great way to build recognition and trust.
For corporate marketing departments, the big advantage of branded umbrellas is that they last for years, delivering thousands of brand impressions over their lifetime. Compared with disposable promotional gifts, this makes branded umbrellas a much more cost-effective long-term investment.
Around 83% of consumers keep promotional umbrellas because they're useful — and because they reinforce your brand image and reliability. We all know the one we keep under the stairs — iBrolly wants to help you make that your brand's umbrella.
Custom Umbrellas Today
With custom umbrellas, organisations can move beyond generic promotional products and create something that really reflects their brand identity. Rather than just slapping a logo on a generic item, custom umbrellas can be designed from the ground up with all the details right — exactly the right colours, exactly the right design language, and exactly the right positioning.
This approach is especially valuable for premium brands and corporate campaigns where consistency and presentation are mission-critical. From matching your branding to the exact shade of your company colours, to choosing the perfect handle finish and frame style, custom umbrellas ensure that every detail says 'professionalism' and 'quality'.
For UK marketing teams running nationwide campaigns, custom umbrellas offer a consistently recognisable asset that reinforces brand cohesion across events, client gifting, and staff use.
Custom Printed Umbrellas
Custom printed umbrellas are all about combining design flexibility with high-impact visibility. The big canopy area makes it easy to get your branding noticed even from a distance — whether you're opting for a logo, a slogan, some photography, or campaign messaging.
Unlike smaller promotional items where the branding can get lost in the mix, the scale of an umbrella canopy makes it easy to deliver bold, confident brand statements. This makes them particularly effective for outdoor activations, exhibitions, sporting events, and hospitality campaigns.
Colour Print Quality
Colour accuracy is key when producing branded umbrellas for corporate use. Marketing teams invest heaps of time in brand guidelines, Pantone matching, and visual consistency, so print quality has got to live up to those exacting standards.
With high-quality colour printing, logos on our promotional umbrellas look vibrant, consistent, and professional — every time. Poor colour reproduction can undermine your brand identity, while precise colour matching reinforces recognition and credibility.
For corporate campaigns, maintaining consistent colour reproduction across big order volumes is mission-critical to presenting a unified and professional image.
Custom Umbrella Printing Methods
There are loads of methods used in custom umbrella printing, each suited to different design requirements and campaign objectives. Screen printing is often used for simple logo applications, while more advanced techniques let you get creative with artwork and full-canopy designs.
For marketing teams looking to make a real impact, full-colour canopy printing offers the greatest flexibility — allowing you to get detailed graphics, gradients, and photographic imagery onto the entire umbrella surface, creating a real showstopper.
We've got full-colour maps showing your office locations, or a vibrant pic of your golf club’s signature golf hole, or even a full-colour picture of your F1 circuit or racecourse — the options are endless and help turn a quality promotional item into a limited-edition souvenir that your customers will love. And there's no other item quite like a quality umbrella with a high-quality double-layer printed umbrella canopy that can showcase your brand or venue to perfection.
Custom Branded Design Approach
Taking a strategic custom-branded design approach means that the umbrella becomes more than just a promotional gift — it becomes an integral part of a broader marketing campaign. This means aligning the canopy layout, logo positioning, and colour use with your overall brand strategy.
Corporate marketers often use umbrellas to support product launches, sponsorships, corporate events, and client engagement initiatives. When designed with care, they can reinforce campaign messaging while also delivering ongoing brand exposure long after the initial event has finished. This design-led approach takes umbrellas from being just a giveaway to being a real brand asset.
We have an experienced team of designers on hand to help create your perfect customised umbrella and explore the custom umbrella options — a really eye-catching design will ensure your brand stands out. Contrasting perimeter tape, printed tie wraps, double-layer canopies with full interior printing all add up to your perfect umbrella design.
It’s a pretty bold statement to make, but we genuinely believe our corporate umbrellas are the best on the market.
Promotional Umbrellas — Different Styles
Branded umbrellas come in all sorts of shapes and sizes — golf umbrellas, walking umbrellas, telescopic umbrellas — the list goes on. Golf umbrellas are ideal for the golf course and outdoor events where you need serious protection from the rain and the sun. Walking umbrellas are a bit smaller but still give you plenty of protection and are great for everyday use in all sorts of weather conditions. Telescopic umbrellas are super-compact and portable, making them perfect for popping in your bag and using on the go.
Branded Golf Umbrellas
These large umbrellas are ideal for corporate events and sports promotions. The iBrolly automatic golf, with its double-layer canopy or dual-vented canopy, is of premium quality, fully performance guaranteed. These windproof umbrellas are geared for performance and reliability with lots of great design options. Suitable for screen printing and full dye-sublimation.
City Walker Umbrellas
City walker umbrellas are a really popular choice within promotional umbrellas — they're a bit smaller than full-size golf umbrellas but still give you plenty of protection from the rain, and they're great for busy streets and public places where a big umbrella is just not practical. With a more compact canopy and a light, easy-to-carry frame, they're perfect for everyday urban use, commuting, and getting around crowded environments. And yet, despite being a bit smaller, they still give you reliable weather protection and quick, easy opening — making them a practical and dependable branded choice when you need to get around quickly and easily.
Telescopic Umbrellas
These small umbrellas, often referred to as telescopic umbrellas, are designed for maximum portability and everyday convenience. Featuring a compact folding frame and a three-stage automatic opening mechanism, they can be easily stored in bags, briefcases, or car compartments while still offering quick, reliable deployment in sudden rain. Despite their reduced size, well-engineered telescopic umbrellas remain durable and wind-resistant, making them a practical and convenient branded promotional item that delivers consistent daily brand exposure.
Sustainable Umbrellas
Eco-friendly printed umbrellas can be made from materials such as R-PET polyester, which is created from recycled plastic bottles.
Opting for umbrellas made with recycled materials not only supports responsible sourcing but also enhances brand perception — recipients increasingly value products that reflect environmentally conscious choices, and a well-engineered umbrella produced from recycled fabrics offers long-term usability alongside a clear sustainable message. iBrolly offers very competitive pricing compared to other suppliers, so being sustainable doesn’t mean overspending.
Affordable Umbrellas vs Long-Term Value
While low-cost umbrellas may appear attractive from a short-term budget perspective, they often fail to deliver long-term value. Lower-cost products can break easily, fade quickly, or feel insubstantial, which reflects poorly on the brand associated with them. The question has to be asked: do you want your logo and brand on a cheap umbrella that's broken and has been discarded in a bin somewhere?
On the other hand, durable branded umbrellas will give you years of good service, delivering a far greater return on investment and making them way more cost-effective. And each time someone uses your umbrella, it reinforces their impression of your brand as reliable and trusted.
For those of us in corporate marketing, it's all about lifetime value rather than just the cost of a single item. Gifting high-quality umbrellas to your employees can build loyalty and turn them into brand ambassadors — and branded umbrellas can be a great way to promote your brand through seasonal campaigns just before the rainy season.
Premium Umbrellas for Corporate Gifting
Premium umbrellas are perfect for corporate gifting strategies. They're a great, high-value item that people are going to keep and use for ages, giving them repeated exposure to your brand and a lasting impression.
Quality materials, smooth operation, and robust frames all contribute to a great user experience — and when people associate your brand with a reliable, well-made product, it reinforces trust and professionalism.
Canopy Print Area and Visibility
We can get really creative with design and branding on multiple panels of the umbrella.
The umbrella canopy gives you one of the biggest printable areas of any promotional product — which is great for strong logo placement, bold colour blocking, or full-panel artwork that still shows well in crowded environments. From city streets to big outdoor events, a well-made canopy can really make your branding stand out and be noticed. This is one of the big reasons why branded umbrellas stay a top choice for marketers looking to get their brand exposed to as many people as possible.
The interior printing options mean you can have full-colour designs on the inside of the canopy. Custom umbrellas can even be fully branded from the tip to the handle, giving you loads of visibility for your brand. If you want to make sure that the umbrella fabric and components really match up with your brand colours, you can use Pantone colour matching.
One way you can really make a branded umbrella stand out is by having printed tie wraps with your logo on them. That way, even when the umbrella is closed, you can still see your branding.
Professional Print Standards
When it comes to producing branded umbrellas for a corporate campaign, it's really important to keep your print standards at a professional level. This means that the image is sharp and in line, and that the ink is good quality — all of which helps to give your final product a polished finish.
Corporate brands rely on precision and quality control to make sure that the items they distribute reflect their standards. Good-quality printing doesn't just make things look better — it also makes sure that the branding stays on the product even after it's been used loads of times in different weather conditions. This is really important for keeping long-term brand exposure going.
Screen printing is the most common technique for printing on umbrellas. It's best used for logos or designs with up to four colours.
Full Colour Dye-Sublimation Printing
Dye-sublimation digital printing is a top-level way of producing promotional umbrellas with your company branding. This process means you can get intricate designs, gradients, and even photographs embedded right into the fabric — giving you really vibrant, long-lasting prints.
For corporate marketing teams, this opens up significant creative possibilities. Entire campaign visuals, maps, venue layouts, or product imagery can be incorporated into the canopy design, creating a truly bespoke corporate gift that goes far beyond traditional logo printing.
Digital transfer printing can put designs onto fabrics of any colour, and digital sublimation can transfer prints to white fabric.
Minimum Order Quantity for Corporate Orders
Smaller order quantities are an important consideration for corporate buyers planning large-scale campaigns. Working with suppliers who can accommodate different order sizes allows marketing teams to scale distribution effectively, whether for a national promotion or a targeted client gifting initiative. iBrolly can manufacture to your exact specification on just twenty-five units and offer multiple variants and a full range of handle styles on that quantity.
Having flexible order volumes also supports phased campaign rollouts — which is great for keeping your branding consistent across multiple events or seasonal marketing activities.
Customisation Options from Tip to Handle
One of the really nice things about fully customised umbrellas is the ability to tailor every single component — from the canopy design to the handle finish and frame construction. This level of customisation means the final product really does match up with your brand positioning and campaign objectives.
Options can include bespoke umbrella canopy colours, branded perimeter tape, branded bags and bag straps, customised handles that can incorporate your company logo, and specialised wind-resistant frames designed for durability in challenging weather conditions. By customising from tip to handle, corporate marketing teams can create a distinctive, premium promotional product that stands apart from generic printed umbrellas.
Special finishes for umbrellas can include doming, engraving, or labels — all of which add to the branding.
So why not choose iBrolly personalised umbrellas for your customised umbrella needs — we guarantee top performance both on product and on service!
Conclusion: A Strategic Investment in Long-Term Brand Visibility
For UK corporate marketing teams, branded umbrellas are a strategic investment rather than just a one-off promotional item. They are durable, they are visible, and they get used all the time — so they really can keep your brand in people's minds for a long time.
When produced with high-quality materials, precise printing, and thoughtful design, custom umbrellas become long-lasting brand ambassadors that reinforce professionalism, reliability, and attention to detail. Compared with disposable promotional items, they deliver significantly greater long-term value and brand exposure.
Get a Free Umbrella Design and a Free Umbrella Quote
If you are planning a corporate campaign and you want to maximise brand visibility with high-quality branded umbrellas, then all you have to do is ask.
Request a free iBrolly umbrella design and a free quote to see how we can tailor custom umbrellas to your brand, campaign objectives, and budget — delivering quality corporate umbrellas in your preferred style that really do perform in real-world conditions and represent your organisation to the highest standard.
Just email sales@ibrolly.com, attaching your logo and brand details together with a brief on what type of umbrella you are after. We will get back to you ASAP.
Branded umbrellas can last over 14 months, which is loads better than disposable items — and we guarantee our promotional umbrellas for a whole two years! The average lead time for custom-branded umbrellas is 2 to 3 weeks. That being said, some pretty sweet discounts are available if you can stomach a slightly longer wait — think a few extra days or even a week or so — and for those who need it in a hurry, an express service will get your umbrellas to you in as little as 7 days — plus, of course, you need to factor in actual delivery times. Depending on the type of umbrella, design, and printing technique used, delivery times for promotional umbrellas can vary significantly.
We can get custom umbrellas shipped to you anywhere in the world — as long as your supplier is set up for global delivery. And if that's a worry of yours, iBrolly will arrange a full DDP service — so you never have to think about it.
Minimum order quantities can differ from supplier to supplier. We've even seen some that require a minimum of 25 units per colour/style before they'll even take your order.
Pre-production samples for custom umbrellas are available free of charge for orders of 50 or more umbrellas, just so you know what you're getting. And these samples come with your company logo on them so you can give it a good hard look and give us the thumbs-up.
If you do want to order samples — and you probably should — you've got a few options to pick from: blank samples or custom-designed samples will give you a good idea of what to expect. Keep in mind, though, that there will be a charge for samples.