Order straight from the factory. Save 30 to 50%. Touch none of the risk.
Buying your branded merchandise offshore is where the real savings live. Doing it yourself is where the customs, quality, and tariff headaches live.
Willwerth Promotions sits in the middle: we go to the factories, we manage the whole chain, and you get one landed price delivered to one door in Canada or the USA.
Book a 30-minute discovery call Send us your project30 to 50% savings versus catalogue pricing, backed by a $500M+ buying network and full coverage across Canada and the USA.
Offshore sourcing: producing your branded apparel and merchandise directly at overseas factories rather than buying it pre-marked-up through a domestic catalogue. For the same item, the factory price is usually 30 to 50% lower.
What has always held companies back is the distance: quality you cannot see, customs and duties to clear, tariffs that move, and no one to call when a container is late.
A managed partner removes every one of those, so you keep the savings without owning the problems.
Where the money actually goes
When you buy a branded item off a domestic catalogue, you are paying the factory price plus every hand it passed through to reach the shelf. Sourcing the same run at the factory takes those hands out. On a typical order that is 30 to 50% back in your budget.
Savings vary by product, quantity, and decoration. We quote the exact landed number before you commit.
One price. One delivery. Zero headaches.
You get a single landed cost and a single delivery to one location in Canada or the USA. Customs, duties, tariffs, freight, and timing are ours to manage. No brokers to chase, no surprise fees on arrival, no container stuck at the border with your name on it.
Landed, kitted, and delivered from our own warehousing. What arrives at your door looks like this, not a poly bag with a customs slip stapled to it.
Offshore is not slow
The biggest myth is that overseas means months of waiting. With the right partner and the right freight choice, it does not. Production overseas is usually about two weeks. From there it is a shipping decision, and you pick the lane that fits your deadline.
Forty years of walking the factory floor
Anyone can find a factory online. Almost no one has spent 40 years building the relationships that make one worth trusting. Our co-founder Steve Willwerth has, and he still gets on the plane.
He visits the factories in person, knows the people who run them, and has watched the good ones stay good over decades.
That is the difference between a listing and a relationship. When you order offshore through Willwerth Promotions, you are borrowing four decades of knowing which factories deliver, which corners never get cut, and how to hold them to it.
You get the factory price with a Canadian company standing behind the result.
What makes sense to source offshore
Offshore pays off most on volume and on custom work a catalogue cannot touch. Think branded apparel programs, event and trade show kits, custom-shape drinkware, bags, tech, and fully custom pieces built to your brand rather than picked from a page.
From apparel to drinkware to full custom kits, if it carries your logo, it can usually be built better and cheaper at the source.
The myths that keep people overpaying
Most of what people believe about offshore comes from a bad DIY experience on a marketplace app. Ordering through a managed partner is a different thing entirely.
Tell us what you are buying. We will show you the offshore number.
Send us a product you already order or an idea you have been sitting on. We will come back with a landed price, a timeline, and exactly what we handle.
Book a 30-minute discovery call Send us your projectCommon questions about offshore sourcing
Not seeing your situation? Tell us how yours runs today and we will answer against it.
How much can we really save?
Expect 30 to 50% off a comparable catalogue or retail price on most orders. Product, quantity, and decoration all move the number, which is why we price the real landed cost for your specific run before you commit to anything.
Do we have to deal with customs, duties, or tariffs?
No, and that is the whole reason to order through us. We take on the customs, duties, tariffs, and freight and fold every dollar of it into one approved price.
Your team sees a single landed number and a single delivery in Canada or the USA, with nothing left to reconcile.
How long does it take?
Faster than most people assume. Factories need roughly two weeks to produce, then air freight adds 7 to 18 days and sea freight about 35. With a little runway on the front end, an offshore run slots comfortably into a normal program timeline.
How is this different from ordering off a marketplace myself?
A marketplace hands you the price and the risk in the same click. We split them apart. You keep the factory price while we carry the quality control, the border, and the accountability.
If anything is off, you reach a Canadian company by phone, not a listing that has already moved on.
Is there a minimum order?
Usually, because offshore rewards volume. Tell us what you are planning and we will give you a straight answer on whether offshore is the right call or whether a domestic run serves you better.