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Retailers and suppliers and distributors of promotional products are capitalizing on the April 29 royal wedding through a variety of products suitable for all occasions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\">\u201cA royal wedding presents the perfect opportunity for commemorative products that people will cherish for a lifetime,\u201d said Timothy M. Andrews, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\">ASI<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\"> president and <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\">CEO<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\">.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\">Annette Scott, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\">CEO<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\"> of <span class=\"SpellE\">Promota<\/span>, a trade association for the ad specialty industry in the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\">UK<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\">, said products such as flags, pens, hats and mugs are perfect giveaways at community parties or business events. Interest is so high, <span class=\"SpellE\">Promota<\/span> created a website where suppliers can upload images of wedding related products, such as commemorative coaster sets and crystal diamonds, engraved with the couple\u2019s image. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><i style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\">The Telegraph<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\"> newspaper reports the sale of royal wedding merchandise could top $42.5 million. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\">James <span class=\"SpellE\">Biggin<\/span>, co-owner of Yorkshire-based Steel City Marketing, said clients are buying up branded paper crowns, <span class=\"SpellE\">handflags<\/span> and decorated bunting to incorporate into events they are hosting to correspond with the celebration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;\">Lucy Stuart, co-owner of Norfolk, UK-based distributor S R Print and Design, has filled orders for mugs and small flags for wedding-themed events or in gift bags. The breadth of products available, Stuart said, has made this occasion the biggest for promotional product consumer sales since the change of the millennium in 2000. <\/span><\/p>\n<article><\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sale of everything from commemorative tea tins to condoms could top $42 million TREVOSE, PA \u2013 April 22, 2011 \u2013&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1482,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.5 (Yoast SEO v27.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Royal Wedding Driving Majestic Sales of Memorabilia &#8226; ASI<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/asicentral.com\/press-releases\/royal-wedding-driving-majestic-sales-of-memorabilia\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Royal Wedding Driving Majestic Sales of Memorabilia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sale of everything from commemorative tea tins to condoms could top $42 million TREVOSE, PA \u2013 April 22, 2011 \u2013...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/asicentral.com\/press-releases\/royal-wedding-driving-majestic-sales-of-memorabilia\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"ASI\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/adspecialtyinstitute\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"#\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-06-06T13:38:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-06-25T20:36:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/asicentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/asi-logo-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1218\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"663\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"jthies@asicentral.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@#\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@asicentral\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"jthies@asicentral.com\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/asicentral.com\\\/press-releases\\\/royal-wedding-driving-majestic-sales-of-memorabilia\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/asicentral.com\\\/press-releases\\\/royal-wedding-driving-majestic-sales-of-memorabilia\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"jthies@asicentral.com\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/asicentral.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/8caad98d2bfb178b4abbfd8766c7932a\"},\"headline\":\"Royal Wedding Driving Majestic Sales of Memorabilia\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-06-06T13:38:14+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-06-25T20:36:57+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/asicentral.com\\\/press-releases\\\/royal-wedding-driving-majestic-sales-of-memorabilia\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":319,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/asicentral.com\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/asicentral.com\\\/press-releases\\\/royal-wedding-driving-majestic-sales-of-memorabilia\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/asicentral.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/10\\\/asi-logo-1.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Press Releases\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/asicentral.com\\\/press-releases\\\/royal-wedding-driving-majestic-sales-of-memorabilia\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/asicentral.com\\\/press-releases\\\/royal-wedding-driving-majestic-sales-of-memorabilia\\\/\",\"name\":\"Royal Wedding Driving Majestic Sales of Memorabilia &#8226; 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