Polar Merchandise is a student-led business located right here at Ohio Northern University, supplying materials to not only those on campus, but also to surrounding communities. They supply both promotional items and branded apparel.
Students, faculty and community members should be aware of Polar Merchandise and the opportunities it provides, so they can take advantage of it. Polar Merchandise works with its customers to create the perfect design to meet the exact wishes of the client.
Junior Bayley Boston is a sales representative for Polar Merchandise. “I promote our products, generate new clients and business, and maintain current customers,” she said.
Sophomore Claire Orsagos, a graphic design major, works with clients and sales representatives on the designing and touch-ups on logos. Orsagos speaks on the business saying that “the small team aspect leads to a pretty successful student-run organization.”
This holds true.
Polar Merchandise is the first student-led organization on campus. It works with the branded merchandise supplier, Touchstone Merchandise Group, who partners with larger companies such as Victoria’s Secret.
“My favorite project was probably the bar crawl T-shirts that I did last spring, especially the ones for the Dicke College of Business Administration. It was so fun to get creative and play around with the design,”
Orsago said.
A big project that Polar Merchandise recently worked on was the T-shirts for Siblings Weekend on campus.
Boston and Orsagos worked together and put forth their skills and ideas to generate a design for the Siblings Weekend T-shirt.
Boston said, “Our idea came to life and was successful as we produced over 300 shirts for the weekend.”
Polar Merchandise is constantly working on new projects and finding the best ways to satisfy the wants of the people.
Boston said, “Being able to work with customers and go back and forth on ideas and designs until the perfect product is produced is what makes being a part of Polar Merchandise so special. The interaction with customers and the constant working at reaching out to potential clients keeps Polar Merchandise an active and successful business.”