Wild Thang

Wild Thang supplies branded clothing, promotional merchandise and print, and was founded in 1996. Based in Bootle, Liverpool, it serves businesses, events, festivals and hospitality brands. Its website also lists offices in Dublin and New Jersey. The catalogue includes clothing, bags, writing instruments, drinkware and gift sets.

Alongside catalogue products, Wild Thang offers merchandise manufactured to a campaign specification. Its bespoke service covers promotional products, staff uniforms, sportswear and packaging. For event organisers, it describes a service extending from merchandise design and manufacture to retail sales through onsite vendors, mobile retail trailers and permanent stadium locations.

Products and packaging

• Clothing includes polo shirts, hooded tops, jackets, T-shirts, aprons and hi-vis garments. Bespoke uniform projects can include wearer trials and sizing days.
• Bags include backpacks, drawstring bags, laptop bags and shoppers. The drinkware catalogue lists ceramic mugs, sports bottles, travel mugs and thermal cups and flasks.
• Welcome packs, onboarding packs and corporate gift packs sit alongside packaging options including cardboard boxes, magnetic boxes, tins and tissue paper. Wild Thang also designs packaging for employee starter kits and VIP merchandise.

Design, display and fulfilment

Wild Thang states that it has an in-house graphic design studio. Its event work includes official merchandise for festivals, music tours, theatre, museums and theme parks. Its display and print services include pull-up banners, curved frame exhibition displays, vinyl banners, posters, wall graphics and bespoke wallpaper.

For ongoing programmes, it offers forecasting, stockholding, storage and distribution. Its merchandise webshops can support customer ordering around the clock, with real-time stock control and reporting. The website describes these systems as supporting the ordering, storage and distribution of official clothing, merchandise and print collateral.

Materials and project samples

The website’s Lower-Eco Impact collection includes recycled aluminium pens, recycled plastic card holders, organic cotton beanies and RPET lanyards. Its summer clothing collection includes garments using organic cotton and recycled polyester. Wild Thang states that it is a Certified B Corp and describes an eight-stage sustainability pledge.

For bespoke packaging, pre-production samples are available in certain cases, depending on the material, project and lead time. Buyers commissioning uniforms can also arrange garments for wearer trials covering quality, wearability and washability, and schedule sizing days.

Source: wildthang.co.uk, wildthang.co.uk/contactus, wildthang.co.uk/bespoke-products-and-services