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Trading Company or Duck Factory: Questions That Tell Them Apart
Both a trading company and a factory will send you a duck catalogue, quote a unit price and promise a lead time. On the surface the difference is invisible, which is why so many buyers discover it later, at the point where a sample needs a change or a batch needs a rework. The distinction…
Duck Tags with QR Codes: Linking a Duck to a Club Page or Campaign
Duck tags started as small cards with a handwritten note: you have been ducked, pass it on. Adding a QR code turns that note into a link, and a link is where the interesting decisions begin. A club can send a new member to a joining page. A shop can send a finder to a…
Employee Onboarding and Internal Campaign Ducks: Building a Culture Kit
Most duck programmes are aimed outward: customers, event visitors, fundraising buyers. A quieter market exists inside companies, where onboarding kits, values campaigns and team milestones need objects that carry a message and survive a desk. Internal campaigns fail for a simple reason: the materials are disposable. A printed leaflet is read once and recycled, which…
Vinyl or Silicone Rubber Ducks: Material Behaviour, Feel and Cost
Most rubber ducks are vinyl: a PVC compound with plasticiser, pigment and stabiliser. It is the material that gives the classic duck its soft feel, its squeak and its price. Silicone enters the conversation when a buyer wants something vinyl cannot do well, and it enters with a different cost structure and a different set…
Two-Colour and Multi-Colour Rubber Ducks: How Colour Is Split in the Mould
A buyer sketching a duck with a different coloured beak, or a logo panel in a contrasting shade, is usually imagining paint. Production rarely works that way. Multi-colour ducks are made by splitting colour across the mould, over-moulding a second shot, or assembling parts after moulding. Each route changes tooling cost, minimum order quantity and…
