Updated March 2025

When choosing the right material for your photo frames, deciding between acrylic and glass can be challenging. Both are clear, protective barriers that shield artwork from damage while offering an unobstructed view of what’s behind. But that doesn’t mean they’re the same.

Whether you're a photographer, print studio, signage producer, or gallery, selecting the ideal frame material impacts not only the aesthetics but also the protection and longevity of your artwork.

At Adventa, we offer a wide range of high-quality framing solutions, including both glass and acrylic options. But before you make your choice, it's important to understand the main differences and how each measures up on the characteristics you’re looking for. So, let’s

We at Adventa are a small family-run business in rural Wales. Initially starting in 1983 as specialists in Injection Moulding we have now become a leading designer and supplier of instant print products for global wholesale and trade customers. Our success has been considerably achieved by working with the Welsh Government and exploiting Support & Funding initiatives to develop & innovate a range of wall art products that would leverage our position as leading suppliers of just add print products globally as well as enhance production methods to create a better service for our customers.

The funding has also facilitated us in presenting the products at major and important tradeshows where it provides the chance to highlight our brand, our activities and products to worldwide customers, activities such as this have helped grow

How To Increase Your Brand Awareness Using Promotional Products

Updated 01/04/2023

Whether you're introducing a new service, promoting an existing one, or aiming to reconnect with past customers while attracting new ones, promotional products can express your brand's voice in a crowded market.

Establishing and growing your brand recognition is a crucial step towards success, especially for small businesses. So, in this blog, we’re diving into how to add product promotion to your brand awareness strategy successfully!

Tips for Creating Brand Awareness Through Promotional Products

Did you know the first known promotional products (commemorative buttons) trace back to 1789 when George Washington was elected president? We strongly believe the key to creating strong brand awareness

The Adventa team are really pleased to have worked together to provide over £12,000 worth of discontinued products to support children's charity, Barnardo's. The stock incorporated a range of previously sold blank photo gifts that have come to end of life. 

By donating, Adventa not only create valuable storage space for essential current stock lines meaning they can keep up with our customer's demands better but it is also part of their recycling scheme, ensuring unwanted products don't end up in landfill! 

Barnardos comments: 

Barnardo’s Gifts in Kind team partners with a number of companies and brands that donate their end-of-line, out of season, damaged (but usable), returned or sample stock to Barnardo’s, which we then sell on in our charity stores. Any donations made greatly help us to raise vital funds to maintain and develop our wide range

Vision Wall Makes an Impact in Support of Local Artist

During February, the Adventa, acrylic poster frame – the Vision Wall, will be creating an artistic impression at a local exhibition being held at the Newtown Library in Powys, Mid-Wales.

The exhibition features a collection of pictures from a local, and very talented artist, Rosie Robinson, who sadly recently passed away.

We are delighted to have supported the exhibition with a range of our picture frames to highlight Rosie’s wonderful paintings in a professional and impactful way comments John Morrish, Sales & Marketing Director. 

These poster frames are the latest concept for large, modern wall art. Contemporary & stylish,

If you are trying to choose a reputable office supplier of wholesale desk accessories and dont know where to start then this article is here to help. We have summarised some useful points to think about whilst selecting your accessories as well as the top 5 products which we think will suit your needs and deliver the impact you are expecting. 

It has often been said that you can say a lot about a person from their stationery.  Personalised stationary enables you to combine your own style, promote key messages & businesses and can add a touch of fun & decor to any desk space. 

Before you decide on your range consider these points as these tips will help you find the right accessories quickly:

1) Function - What job is the item designed to do? Are you offering a fun item designed to make your customer smile? Are you looking for a contemporary desk item designed to make the work space

The season of romance is fast approaching and as we all know finding the right gift for a loved one can be tricky. But we’ve rounded up the best wholesale Valentine’s Day gifts you should be selecting to help make finding a personalised gift a doddle for all your customers – even the husbands!

Valentine’s Day is a great opportunity to get an extra sales lift after that crazy Christmas rush. So make the most of it and make sure you provide your customers with a wide range of products which they can personalise - after all Valentines is all about showing someone how much your care.

#1 HeartBlox

What symbolises Valentine’s more than hearts? That’s why the HeartBlox

If you, or your team, are tasked with sourcing good quality mementos and souvenirs for your tourist attraction then you will already know this is a great selection of products available, and a number of places from which you can source these items.

The challenge in doing this effectively is choosing products that are;

- The most cost effective to purchase, stock and sell
- The best quality and range to provide to your customers
- The most efficient to deliver to your visitors

Getting these 3 points right means that we could happily increase the spend per head at our attraction or venue.

- The more cost effective to buy in, the more margin for profit.
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Adventa, formerly known as Innova Mill was founded in 1983 and is run by brothers Mark (Managing Director) and John (Sales and Marketing Director). Based in Mid-Wales, UK, Adventa has grown and developed into an organisation that is committed to innovation, automation and quality products that have been distributed to customers in every continent of the world! To help provide the best possible service Adventa is always growing and developing, with biweekly product development meeting (totalling an astonishing 480 hours per year) we like to challenge the ‘norm’ to ensure the best products are always available.

Not only have we tackled the global market but in 2015 we expanded over the pond and set up a warehouse in New Jersey, and we are currently expanding our UK Warehouse so we can accommodate 896 pallets at one time.

As the company grows so does our client bases, due to this we have expanded our teams to help keep up with demand, provide a high