Elite Awards & Gifts is a Canadian manufacturer of wood products and the gold standard in corporate recognition awards, gifts, and promotional products. Our broad range of materials, types, sizes, and shapes of products, along with our unsurpassed custom work and stellar customer service make us the perfect choice for your award needs.
Elite Awards & Gifts is in the business of manufacturing and selling corporate awards, corporate gifts, and promotional products for those reasons. To the people that receive Elite awards or gifts, they truly know that you have said thank you or congratulations for a job well done, for reaching that goal, for being the best, for always being there, for being a wonderful employee, for being a terrific customer, or just for being great. Elite Awards & Gifts is all about making people happy, and we've been doing it for over 40 years.
Take a look at our online catalogue to view our product lines and their retail prices. New distributors should contact us to learn about their discounts from the retail prices. Don't forget that we specialize in custom products, so be sure to contact us with anything you have in mind. We can help you!
Why choose Elite Awards & Gifts?
Custom Work
We do many things that others just can't, from one of a kind virtual designs and one offs to complete production of the order quantity. Moreover, we do a great deal of custom work, so we are seasoned professionals in this and all other areas of our business. Often, hard to do is can do for Elite Awards & Gifts. Basically, whatever someone can dream up can be done.
Quality
Not only do we manufacture using the higest quality of materials, our quality control is second to none, as all of our operations are at one location. We are on top of every process as it is being completed, so we do not just inspect the end product.
Speed
We are a family run business, and every process is at one location. This means quick account set up, quick decision making and quotations, and faster designing and manufacturing. We carry a huge inventory of raw materials and products, so we can get your order to you with speed.
Price
For the quality of our products and services, our prices are fabulous. The prices in our Elite Awards & Gifts online catalogue are our suggested retail prices. These are the prices we recommend that you charge your customers. Existing customers know the distributor prices, and you can contact us to get them. If you want to know more about pricing, click here.
The Biggest
In our specialties, we are the largest manufacturer, wholesaler, designer, and seller in Canada.
Worldwide
We have customers and material suppliers throughout the world. We think this gives everyone involved the benefit of our wealth of experience, and it displays our desire to ensure the best in every aspect of our business, by seeking it out wherever it may be found throughout the globe.
Proudly Canadian
Elite Awards is a Canadian manufacturer. The products we make from wood are from trees that come through sustainable forestry. The definition of sustainable forestry is: Management and utilization of forests to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs, by integrating the reforestation, growing, nurturing, and harvesting of trees for useful products with conservation of soil, air, and water quality as well as maintenance of plant and animal diversity and aesthetics.
History
It is little wonder that Elite Awards & Gifts is one of the premier manufacturers of corporate awards, corporate gifts, and promotional products in Canada, as it is truly time-honoured. Three partners opened the business in 1960, including Norton Orser (the father of the current president). It all began with the manufacturing of solid wood trophies, and the broader category of manufacturing corporate awards from the highest quality hardwoods has remained a core business for Elite Awards & Gifts.
The product line quickly blossomed to include giftware, such as spoon racks and coasters. Over the next few decades, product lines saw many expansions and customers grew by leaps and bounds. It was during this time that the business became entirely that of the Orser family.
The first major ownership change happened when two of the partners bought out the third. The second came in 1981, when Norton Orser bought out his remaining partner and took his son, Chris, on board. Finally, in 1992, Chris Orser took over Elite, and he has been at the helm of this continually growing business every since.
Today, Elite Awards & Gifts has numerous employees, hundreds of customers, and thousands of products. Many of the manufacturing processes have been computerized. Some processes are still done in age-old ways using traditional methods to ensure optimum effects and qualities. Now, the Elite Awards materials used are vast - optical crystal, lead crystal, glass, acrylic, oak, maple, walnut, bubinga, rosewood, mahogany, marble, granite, slate, stone, metal, plastic, leather - and the Elite Awards processes are numerous - laser engraving, sand etching, silk screening, endless computerized design capabilities, all wood processes from raw woods to finished products, lacquering, staining, sanding, polishing, packaging, and the list goes on. The possibilities are almost limitless.
We take this opportunity to thank our extremely valuable customers, our dedicated and highly skilled employees, and our terrific suppliers.
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