Customized Sports Bottle as Holiday Gift Wins over Not-For-Profit Audience of Harry Caray’s Restaurant

Challenge: How to show your appreciation for a non-for-profit organization that specializes in beautifying your surrounding neighborhood

With Gateway Green, a Chicago-based not-for-profit organization, making every effort to recreate Chicago in the image of a 21st century metropolis leading the world in responsible environmental development, Harry Caray’s Restaurant wanted to show its support for Gateway Green’s efforts by presenting members of the organization with holiday gifts. However, with Gateway Green’s intense dedication to greening and environmentally friendly projects around Chicago, Harry Caray’s Restaurant needed to find the ideal product that would appeal to the staff of Gateway Green and would resonate with their eco-friendly practices. Despite the huge selection of eco-friendly products available, team members of Harry Caray’s Restaurant knew that they needed to give away BPA-free bottles this year.

Solution: Harry Caray’s Restaurant chose an inexpensive BPA-free sports bottle that displayed their name

Although ePromos carries an array of BPA-free water bottles, Harry Caray’s Restaurant collaborated with Promotions Specialist Caitlin Powers to narrow their options and maximize their return-on-investment. Faced with sports bottles ranging in sizes from 5.5 oz. to 32 oz., the Caray Team went with the largest BPA-free water bottle – the Poly-Pure 28 oz. Sports Bottle. While Harry Caray’s Restaurant was concerned with giving away a meaningful product that recipients would use, it also sought to put a small card inside the bottle conveying their support for Gateway Green’s efforts, and the Poly-Pure 28 oz. Sports Bottle provided an ample amount of space for that. In addition to being an eco-friendly, practical gift for Gateway Green staff members, this sports bottle model maximized Harry Caray’s self-promotional opportunity by providing it with the largest imprint area among all of their options.

Result: Sports bottles were the biggest hit compared to previous holiday gift products

In the past, Harry Caray’s Restaurant has given away a great assortment of products including golf umbrellas, cookie baskets, mugs, and signed baseballs, but they cited that “water bottles were a bigger hit.” Unlike previous holiday gift products, these sports bottles served as a successful and cost-efficient marketing and advertising tool. With Harry Caray’s business dependent upon customers from the local community, the opportunity to advertise wherever recipients carry their bottles around the city has provided them with tremendous publicity, making it an undeniably successful promotional, holiday gift.

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