# Corporate Holiday Gifts 2026: Custom Can Coolers & Hats, With Order-By Dates > The two dates that matter this season: order custom hats by October 2 and can coolers by November 20 for delivery before the holidays. Here's the calendar, the budget math, and how to order. Published 2026-09-11. By Reel48 Team. Tags: can-coolers, hats, business, holiday. **If you want branded gifts in hands before the holidays, there are two dates to circle:** place a custom hat order by **Friday, October 2**, and a custom can cooler order by **Friday, November 20**. Hats need a mockup, a sample and then 7–9 weeks of production after sample confirmation; can coolers print from the design you confirm online and deliver in 2–4 weeks. Everything below works back from a delivery target of Friday, December 18. ## Why can coolers and hats make the shortlist The gifts that survive January are the ones people actually use. A can cooler lives in a truck console, a cooler bag or a desk drawer and comes out at every tailgate, lake day and backyard cookout for years — your logo goes with it, and it costs less than a greeting card. A hat is the higher-ticket version of the same idea: crews and clients wear the ones that fit well and look like something they'd have bought, which is why every one of our 7 numbered styles is photographed from several angles on its product page, so you can judge the shape before you order. Both are ordered online at published per-unit prices, both take a single logo well, and both ship from Austin, TX to anywhere in the US. ## The holiday calendar ### Custom hats, standard speed: order by Friday, October 2 Your free digital mockup arrives within 24 hours of ordering; approve it and we make a sample. Ordering by Oct 2 leaves two weeks for the mockup, the sample and your approval; confirm the sample by **Oct 16** and the full run is delivered 7–9 weeks later — by Dec 18. ### Custom hats, faster speeds: ask first Faster production speeds exist for hats. [Tell us the date](https://www.reel48.com/contact?topic=general#request) before you order and we'll confirm what's possible. ### Custom can coolers, standard: order by Friday, November 20 Production starts at checkout on the design you confirmed in the designer, and orders deliver in 2–4 weeks — four weeks lands on Dec 18. ### Custom can coolers, rush: order by Friday, December 4 Rush production runs 1–2 weeks for an additional fee. [Contact us](https://www.reel48.com/contact?topic=general#request) before you check out so we can confirm the slot. Every window above includes shipping transit. If your team is spread across offices, order to one address and distribute, or [ask us about split shipments](https://www.reel48.com/contact?topic=general#request) before you order — that is easier to arrange up front than after production starts. ## What to put on them **Can coolers:** one logo on the front is the classic; the back is free real estate for a message ("Happy holidays from the whole crew", a website, a phone number). You choose the color and see the live preview in the [online designer](https://www.reel48.com/design/coozie) — what you approve is what we print. Standard cans and slim cans (seltzers, energy drinks) use different dies, so pick the one your people drink. **Hats:** embroidery for wordmarks and simple logos, a PVC or silicone patch for a bold, dimensional look, a woven patch for fine detail. Our [hat decoration guide](https://www.reel48.com/blog/custom-hat-decoration-methods) compares all four. Pick one of the 7 numbered styles on [the custom hats page](https://www.reel48.com/custom-hats); every price break is printed on the style's product page before you add it to the cart. ## Budgeting: what a gift run actually costs Can coolers start at **$0.84** per unit at volume with a 100-unit minimum, and shipping is a flat $0.05 per unit shown in the cart. A 100-unit run for a client list is a rounding error on a marketing budget; a 1,000-unit run for an employee event is still cheaper than most catered lunches. The full tier table is in [our can cooler pricing post](https://www.reel48.com/blog/how-much-do-custom-koozies-cost), and resellers and planners should read [the bulk pricing math](https://www.reel48.com/blog/bulk-koozie-pricing-for-resellers). Hats have a 50-piece minimum with volume breaks at every step above it. Because every style publishes its ladder, you can price three styles against each other in five minutes without asking anyone — and the free mockup means you see your logo on the exact hat before a single one is made. ## How ordering works 1. **Can coolers:** open the [designer](https://www.reel48.com/design/coozie), pick standard or slim, choose a color, drop in your logo and text, check the live preview, add to cart. Production starts after checkout. 2. **Hats:** pick a style and decoration method on its product page, set the quantity, check out, then reply to your receipt with your logo. Your mockup arrives within 24 hours; approve it, we make the sample, you confirm, and the run ships 7–9 weeks after sample confirmation. 3. **On a deadline?** Say so *before* you order — [one message](https://www.reel48.com/contact?topic=general#request) lets us confirm the timeline while there is still room to adjust it. Want the step-by-step for hats with real numbers at each stage? It is all in [how to order custom hats for your business](https://www.reel48.com/blog/how-to-order-custom-hats-for-your-business). ## A note on the calendar The dates above are for a standard-speed order arriving by December 18. If your gifts are for a New Year kickoff instead, add three weeks to every date. If they are for a December 5 client event, subtract two — and for hats, that means you are already in "ask first" territory. The sooner the sample is confirmed, the more of the calendar you control. **[See promotional can coolers with your logo →](https://www.reel48.com/promotional-koozies)** **[Browse the 7 hat styles and their pricing →](https://www.reel48.com/custom-hats)** ## Keep reading - [How to Order Custom Hats for Your Business (Step-by-Step)](https://www.reel48.com/blog/how-to-order-custom-hats-for-your-business) - [Delta HVAC's navy and grey 5-panels](https://www.reel48.com/blog/delta-hvac-custom-hats) - [175+ Wedding Can Cooler Ideas & Sayings, by Theme](https://www.reel48.com/blog/wedding-koozie-ideas) --- Canonical HTML page: [https://www.reel48.com/blog/corporate-holiday-gifts-2026](https://www.reel48.com/blog/corporate-holiday-gifts-2026) This document: [https://www.reel48.com/md/blog/corporate-holiday-gifts-2026](https://www.reel48.com/md/blog/corporate-holiday-gifts-2026) — also served at the canonical URL with `Accept: text/markdown`. 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