Get Together, Share a Laugh and Make Memories

It’s summer; let’s all act like kids! From water fights to family reunions, summer is about having fun and letting go of work and school stressors. There are countless activities to do with your family, friends and neighbors. Relationships are important, so build them in your family, neighborhood and at work, all while getting together to share a laugh.

Using badge holders and badge ribbons at family and neighborhood events.

Spending time with others offers many benefits, including building personal confidence and strengthening bonds. Likewise, family time offers many benefits. These include building trust and creating a stronger emotional bond between family members. You can also improve your communication skills while bettering your performance in school and at work. Summer is about making memories while spending time with those who matter to you.

Badge Holders with Badge Ribbons and How to Share a Laugh

Badge holder with handwritten name and a colorful badge ribbon imprinted with a surname for a family get together.

Getting together with family is the best part of summer. This year, use badge holders and ribbons to define your family tree. It never fails, someone at your reunion will show up, and you won’t know how they relate to the family. So, use ribbons and badges to help everyone fit in.

Print each insert with an attendee’s name and attach a badge ribbon with their family surname. You can even color coordinate each family. These ribbons will help everyone know who fits in and where. Now Great Aunt Tabitha won’t have to wonder where you fit into her family tree. All she has to do is check out your ribbon and badge to see.

Blank Badge Ribbons and Getting Together

Lavender blank badge ribbon with a pin and a handwritten name for a child's games.

Make a memory this summer by helping everyone feel welcome with handwritten names on badge ribbons. Then you can use these badge ribbons to designate seating arrangements and more. Or give them to people to wear for a fun version of identification. Finally, everyone can pin one on and get to know each other better.

Blank badge ribbons are also great for game use. These ribbons are versatile, from writing names on them to using them as game pieces and even as designations for titles. Use the different colors for different games or organizations during the festivities. Design your game using badge ribbons and either focus on the colors or write on them with a permanent marker.

Reusable Badge Holders are Perfect for Making Memories

Reusable badge holder with printed inserts for a neighborhood treasure hunt.

Share a laugh while having a treasure hunt with friends and family, and use badge holders to help with keeping organized. Laughing together helps create fun memories and strengthens bonds within families and neighborhoods.

When your neighborhood plans a get-together, make sure that everyone can participate. When you use identification (like badge holders), you can ensure that everyone will know who is there. Remember to have fun with these printable badges. Add fun things like a treasure map or creative names and titles for game participants.

Countless activities compete for time on the calendar, such as work, school, homework, after-school activities, friends, and more. So, as the summer comes to a close, remember to get together to share a laugh and make some memories with your family and neighbors.

Holiday Personalization at Its Best

Oh what fun to celebrate the holidays again! And we’re bringing even more cheer this year with all new ways to use our products. With a plethora of ideas on two new pages, we guarantee your creative spark will shine this holiday season! Here are some of these ideas, and how to create the look.

Custom Shape Name Tags

Snowflake shaped name tag used as a holiday ornament that will hold a picture.

Find your holiday spirit with Custom Shape Name Tags this year. From stars to snowmen, we have a shape that will match your whimsy and style. Or, talk with us about creating your own custom shape to have around this season.

Give these fun shapes to your employees and volunteers and help them get into the holiday spirit as well. They are also great for parties and other seasonal events. Finding more inspiration and holiday shapes is just as easy as a quick click!

Customize each name tag with a plastic color that will match your picture. We can even engrave each ornament with a name to help with the personalization. Then, order it with a hole in the middle and create a truly one-of-a-kind ornament!

Once you have these in hand, measure your picture to the hole and secure it to the back of the name tag with double-sided tape. We finished off ours with a small piece of felt, but you can use any backing you want. These ornaments make a wonderful gift for family and friends. Add a picture of a grandchild to give to their grandparent. Or find a fun picture of your best friend so that they can hang you forever in their tree and heart.

Custom Holiday Signs and Name Plates

Using custom engraved products for decorating will help add to your uniqueness. Create items that match your personality and style. Choose from an abundance of colors for your custom signage and add nearly any graphic and text that will help accentuate your holiday whimsy. These signs are perfect for your home or the office.

Engraved green plastic sign with a festive holiday message.

Black Acrylic Desk Block (Text Only) with an engraved gold colored holiday message.

Acrylic Desk Blocks also make wonderful and thoughtful gifts for friends, family and colleagues. Either add someone’s name with an interesting font, or create a block with some style and a special quote or thought. Everyone who receives this gift will be amazed with your thoughtfulness and creativity.

Custom Badge Ribbons

Think outside of the box with Custom Badge Ribbons this season! Personalize each ribbon to reflect a message you want to share with family and friends. Go with festive ribbon colors and choose an imprint color to match. Instead of the traditional ring around your place settings this year, simply wrap a ribbon around the setting and attach then ends with double sided tape. Hint: this tape can come with your ribbons!

Other Holiday Ribbons

From ribbon rolls to custom top ribbons, we have every ribbon you will ever need to celebrate your holidays in style. Here’s a couple of quick ideas to get your creativity started.

Custom top ribbons and ribbon rolls all themed for celebrations and events for business and family use.

Wrap branded ribbon rolls around corporate gifts.
Use custom top ribbons as a way to remind customers of upcoming events.
Snip pieces of ribbon roll and use as table scatter at a party.
Speaking of parties, use custom top ribbons as a unique party invitation.
Ribbon rolls are so versatile you can use them in nearly all of your decorating!

Get more ribbon ideas here: https://www.personalized-ribbons.com/winter/

No matter your choice for custom products, we’re here to make sure that your holidays are merry and bright! And, if you can’t find something specific, either ask or give us a call.

Celebrating Christmas, Name Tag Style

From name tags to custom ribbons, all we want is to celebrate Christmas in style!

While it’s all about personal identification 364 days of every year, for one fleeting day it’s about socializing and stuffing ourselves full of delicious food. And, this Christmas is no exception!

Customer Service employees celebrating at the Coller Industries Incorporated Christmas party

Marketing Department employees celebrating at the Coller Industries Incorporated Christmas party

Production and Shipping employees celebrating at the Coller Industries Incorporated Christmas party

Here at Coller Industries, we pride ourselves on our high-quality workmanship, our culture of quality and our perfect name tags and ribbons. And, while we like to boast about our less than 0.05% error rate, we also want to boast about our nearly perfect employees.

Ramona, the Marketing and Web Services Manager, said, “It’s amazing just how much everything works together. We have such a culture of quality in this company. And, it is so impressive that we are less than a half percent in our error rate.”

All in all, Coller Industries strives in every way possible to get each order not only out the door quickly and efficiently, but correctly! And our low error rate proves this, not only to us but to our current and potential customers.

Aimee, the Senior Account Manager, said, “It has been a fun and exciting year getting to know our many customers and I would like to thank all of the employees, everyone from every department for their assistance and support in ensuring the satisfaction of all of our customers.”

Having a low error rate increases sales and increased sales translate into happy customers. And with happy customers, Coller Industries remains in business to continue to serve everyone and their personal identification needs!

And, part of this happiness needs to extend to our family here at Coller Industries.

Hannah, the Customer Service Manager, said it best, “What makes Coller Industries stand out, is that it feels more like family than work. We all support each other and care about each other, and I think that is such a big contribution to how well we do as a company. Obviously work is work, but it is so much easier to do when everyone you work with is a friend, and everyone cares about each other. I think that is part of what keeps us so motivated to do well.”

Celebrating at the Coller Industries Incorporated Christmas party

Our annual tradition of the Christmas party includes a giant luncheon hosted and catered at a local hotel. This year’s meal included prime rib, chicken, salmon, asparagus and other sides for a feast fit for a king. There were also delicious appetizers of crackers and spinach dip with prosciutto wrapped asparagus.

Vance, the Design Manager, said, “I enjoyed the appetizers, I was nearly full by the time the main meal was starting. And I liked that this year’s party was smaller, with only the one guest it made the party feel more about our accomplishments as a group than a meal with families.”

We also played games and gave out prizes for raffles. From a holiday word scramble to trying to remember who had played the jolly man in red, the games were a blast and the presents even better.

And, every year each employee receives a personalized gift from Coller Industries. This year was a water bottle decorated with the CI logo which was full of candy. We also got a custom embroidered jacket with the CI logo.

This year we also had a special treat and recognized the hard work of several employees. From perfect attendance to most efficient, each of these employees received one of our new custom plaques engraved with their specific talent and name.

Here are more thoughts from several employees about our fabulous annual Christmas party:

Crystal (Shipping Clerk) “Everything about the party this year was just so amazing and fun. I wouldn’t have changed anything. And, I really like how plaques were given out for employee appreciation.”

Mathew (Web Design / Development) “The people and environment are the best part about the annual party. It is a nice casual setting where we can enjoy one another’s company and socialize.”

Leslie (Shipping Clerk) “My favorite thing about the Christmas party was getting together with all of the employees and just having fun.”

Charles (Sample Requests) “I always enjoy the company of my coworkers as we are also friends. And it isn’t very often that we get to chat and hang out throughout a workday.”

We just want to say thank you to everyone who works for Coller Industries. We wouldn’t be where we are today if it wasn’t for our wonderful employees. And, to all of our customers, have a Merry Christmas and a happy holiday season!

Hosting the Holidays with Custom Signs

You’ve drawn the straw for hosting the holidays for family or colleagues this year, now what?

Well, start your holiday party off right with custom signs. What do signs have to do with party planning and hosting the holidays, you ask? From welcoming your guests to personalizing office decorations, signs can be the answer to a bundle of things. And, here are just a few examples.

Decorations for the Home and Office

Step up your decorating game by adding a custom sign to your door wreath. Or, add a sign to the buffet table. From adding unique flair at the office to making decorations in your home a bit more exciting, using custom signs can be fun!

And, they are easy to make. Choose a color to match your ideas of hosting the holidays or match a specific holiday theme. Then select the text you need. Use holiday quotes or a seasonal greeting. And, you can even add a custom logo or graphic!

Make A Custom Gift

Whether it’s a colleague or family member, personalize a sign for a unique gift for someone special. From a favorite quote to a special nickname, add your custom text to any sign for a this extraordinary gift. Once you receive the sign, put it in a frame and wrap it up for your chosen recipient. They are sure to love your thoughtfulness.

Even more ideas

Are you literally hosting the holidays at your house and have family staying with you? Use a custom sign to display any house rules so that all guests and residents are happy and cozy.

Does your business need help with signage during the holidays? Promote sales or holiday hours with a unique sign on your door or throughout the store.

Don’t forget about the kids! Make an advent calendar that the kids in the house can count down the days to Christmas with.

And, your business is sure to need a little help hosting Santa! Make him a special sign that gives directions to the North Pole.

Best Tip for Hanging Your Custom Signs

And, don’t forget that ribbon rolls can be your best friend when displaying your custom signs. Make sure to get some custom ribbons to hang each one. They can also be used for fun and festive accessories to make your signs extra special. Personalize each ribbon with names, dates or holiday thoughts and quotes.

How We Show Gratitude & Appreciation

These are big words: gratitude, appreciation, community. And their meanings are even more significant!

Every year around this time, Coller Industries receives a special package. Inside this package are not only handwritten thank you Valentines, but also lots and lots of love. We receive these cards every year due to our annual donations to the Granite Education Foundation. And every year, our hearts are filled with gratitude and appreciation for those in our community.

Enclosed in the package is also a letter from the board of Granite Education Foundation:

Hey, Valentine!

Exchanging heartfelt messages on Valentine’s Day is a well-loved tradition. While the earliest Valentines were little more than hastily scribbled notes, today we can choose from thousands of varieties, each designed for a specific relationship in our lives. A hundred years ago, only sweethearts exchanged Valentine’s Day cards, but the practice has spread to encompass friends, family, colleagues and supporters.

This year, Granite Education Foundation and students from throughout Granite School District want to express our heartfelt thanks for your continued generosity and support. Enclosed you will find hand-made Valentine’s Day cards that our students created with YOU in mind.

Each board member signs this letter as a token of their gratitude and appreciation for all our donation does for teachers, students and the school district.

Granite Education Foundation (GEF)

Federal and state funds do not meet the immense needs of our students, teachers and schools. The Granite Education Foundation provides access to resources that improve educational outcomes.

We provide educational opportunities for students of Granite School District.

We educate students, teachers and members of our community on ways to impact our community. Together, we CAN make a difference! We gather and give resources the GRANITE way. We impact children and teachers in public education. We advocate, inform and promote learning for students and their families.

The lessons we learn from helping in our community teaches us how to be grateful for what we have. And when we realize what we have, we give even more back to those around us.

Coller Industries is known for their impact in the community through product donations. But the annual contribution to GEF is the one donation that we deem the most poignant. We are giving to the schools, the children, and most importantly, we are providing for our future.

These actions we make each year fill our hearts with gratitude and appreciation for those around us. Those who strive every day to make a difference in the world. So, yes, we receive thank you cards, but we feel that we are the ones who should be the most grateful. And that, in essence, is why we give donations.