Best Branded Notebooks for Businesses
The best branded notebook depends on who's getting it. For conferences and events, an A5 lined notebook with a soft-touch cover and a pen loop. For new starters, the same, with a back pocket for the paperwork. For a whole team, a value A5 or A6.
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View allThe best branded notebook depends on who's getting it. For conferences and events, an A5 lined notebook with a soft-touch cover and a pen loop. For new starters, the same, with a back pocket for the paperwork. For a whole team, a value A5 or A6. For clients, a hardback from a name they recognise, or a notebook and pen set.
We supply branded notebooks to businesses, charities, schools and clubs across the UK, and this is how we'd match one to each job.
For conferences and events
An A5 lined notebook that's light enough to carry all day and has somewhere to keep the pen.
Delegates write in it during the sessions and take it home afterwards. The A5 Premium Soft Touch Lined Notebook is the one to start with: a PU cover in a choice of colours, cream lined paper, an elastic closure, a ribbon marker, a pen loop and a pocket at the back for business cards. For larger numbers, the Supavalue A5 Notebook has a soft-feel cover and FSC certified paper.
Our idea on what to put in a delegate bag covers the rest of the bag, and our conferences collection has the products that go with it.
For welcome kits and new starters
A notebook a new starter will use at their desk every day, with a pen to go with it.
The A5 Premium Soft Touch Lined Notebook works here too, and so do the Signature Soft Feel Notebooks, with an ultra-soft PU cover and creamy-white lined pages. The Mood A5 Soft Feel Notebook adds a section at the front for the owner's contact details and uses FSC certified lined paper. Pair any of them with a pen from our guide to the best promotional pens for businesses, or choose a set, which our idea on notebook and pen sets covers.
Our employee onboarding gifts collection brings the welcome kit products together.
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For everyday use across a team
Value and volume, in the size that suits the job.
For desks and meetings, the Supavalue A5 Notebook. For pockets, site visits and jotting, the Supavalue A6 Notebook, which is a hardback with a soft-touch cover, or the A7 Pocket Notebook. For training and workshops, where people work alongside printed handouts, the A4 Lined Notebook gives them the room.
Each of these can be branded with your logo, and the price per notebook usually comes down as the quantity goes up. The product page shows current pricing, and your Visual Proof™ shows the price at your quantity.
For client gifts
A notebook the recipient would have bought themselves, with a discreet logo.
A name they recognise does some of the work, which is why the Large Moleskine Classic Hardback Ruled Notebook suits a client list. The Karst® A5 Stone Paper Hardcover Notebook - Lined has waterproof, tear-resistant pages and a binding that lies flat, which makes it a talking point as well as a gift. For a quieter finish on a soft-touch cover, the Zenith A5 Debossed Notebook presses your logo into the cover, and the Mood A5 Notebook Foil Blocking finishes it in gold or silver foil.
Keep the branding small on a gift. A debossed or foiled logo reads as considered, while a large print reads as marketing. Our idea on corporate Christmas gift ideas for clients covers the occasion, and our idea on notebook and pen sets covers pairing one with a pen.
For a sustainability brief
A notebook whose material is named on the product page.
The Natural Recycled Notebook has a cover made from recycled paper, recycled lined pages and a wire binding. The Fabia Crush Paper Cover Notebook has a cover made with coffee residue (brown) or olive residue (green) combined with recycled material, and a stitched spine. The Evora A5 Cork ThermoPU Notebook has a cover in cork and PU and comes packed in a black box.
Look for the material rather than the word eco, and check the whole notebook, because the cover, the pages and the binding can each be made from something different. Our guide to buying eco-friendly merchandise without the greenwashing covers the standards worth looking for.
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What changes between them?
The size, the cover, the branding, and how much the person receiving it is expected to value it.
| Job | Size | Cover | Branding that suits it | A notebook to start with | Check on the product page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conferences and events | A5 | Soft-touch PU | Screen print in one or two colours | A5 Premium Soft Touch Lined Notebook | Pen loop and back pocket |
| Welcome kits | A5 | Soft-touch or soft-feel PU | Screen print, or deboss for a quieter look | quieter look Mood A5 Soft Feel Notebook | Contact details page and pen loop |
| Everyday use across a team | A5, A6 or A4 | Card with a soft-feel finish | Screen print or full colour | Supavalue A5 Notebook | Paper weight and page count |
| Client gifts | A5 or large format | Hardback, leatherette or stone paper | A small print, deboss or foil, depending on the notebook | Large Moleskine Classic Hardback Ruled Notebook | Presentation and branding options |
| Sustainability brief | A5 or close to it | Recycled paper, crush paper, or cork and PU | Screen or pad print | Natural Recycled Notebook | What each part is made from |
Our guide to notebook sizes, covers and paper explains the specification, and our guide to screen printing, embroidery and engraving explains what each branding method looks like.
How do you see it before you order?
Request a free Visual Proof™, and if you want to feel the cover, order a sample where one's available.
Our in-house designers will put your logo on the notebook and send it back with the price and the delivery date, usually in around 20 minutes. You can request as many changes as you need, the price is locked for 14 days, and nothing goes into production until you approve it. Where a sample is available, you order it through the product page, and the current terms are shown there.
To see the range, browse our branded notebooks.