“Bob Lilly Promotions (BLP) is a promotional products and integrated marketing company based in Garland, Texas. Co-founded in 1999 by Bob Lilly Jr. and Julie Traeger-Lilly, BLP is a majority woman-owned business.”
“We partner with mid-to-large enterprises across healthcare, energy, technology, sports, food & beverage, and nonprofit sectors. Our clients range from regional organizations to nationally recognized brands. View our work”
“Yes, BLP is a woman-owned business and is a WBENC certified (Women's Business Enterprise) making us a qualified diverse supplier for corporate procurement programs. We actively support supplier diversity initiatives across every industry we serve and can provide full certification documentation upon request. Learn more about who we are”
“Simply fill out our contact form or call us directly at (214) 231-2082. Most projects begin with a 30-minute discovery conversation where we learn about your brand, goals, audience, and timeline. From there, our team develops a strategic recommendation tailored specifically to you, no templates, no guesswork. Let's get started”
“Absolutely. While we're proudly headquartered in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, we serve clients nationwide. Our fulfillment and distribution network delivers to any location across the country, whether you're shipping to one office or a thousand locations simultaneously.”
“WBENC certification verifies that a business meets the standards to be recognized as a Women’s Business Enterprise.”
“Yes. BLP runs enterprise programs for clients like Atmos Energy, serving 5,500 employees, and Jani-King, serving 50+ franchise locations.”
“Yes. Every service BLP provides can support your supplier-diversity spend, including branded merchandise, company stores, print, packaging, fulfillment, uniforms, and awards.”
“BLP provides certificates, directory links, and documentation for supplier-diversity and procurement files. Ask our team and we will provide what your records require.”
“Yes. BLP can provide certification documentation on request for procurement, compliance, and supplier-diversity records.”
“Not currently. BLP held Texas HUB certification until the State of Texas froze new and renewed HUB certifications in October 2025 and narrowed the program to service-disabled veteran-owned businesses. BLP's ownership and eligibility under the former criteria have not changed. BLP's active certification is WBENC (certificate #2005109784, held since January 2008, valid through January 31, 2027).”
“The energy company promotional products that get used rather than discarded are the ones built for how this workforce actually operates: FR-rated apparel for field crews, insulated drinkware that survives a truck cab in a Texas summer, hard hats and safety gear with proper decoration, and premium recognition pieces for safety milestones and years-of-service awards.”
“Yes. Bob Lilly Promotions supplies FR and safety gear from some of the best-known brands in the industry, currently including Portwest, LAPCO FR, Bulwark FR, Ariat and Radians, through one source and one store.”
“A safety recognition program ties tangible awards to the milestones your organization already tracks: days without a lost-time incident, safe driving records, near-miss reporting participation, or crew-level safety goals. BLP designs the award structure with your safety team, sources merchandise appropriate to each milestone tier, and fulfills directly to job sites, regional offices, or headquarters.”
“A promotional products distributor is the company that sits between brands and the manufacturers of branded merchandise: it sources products from suppliers, manages decoration and quality, and delivers finished programs to the client. It's the industry's formal category name, used by the Promotional Products Association International (PPAI), the industry's trade association, in classifying member companies.”
“Six things separate an enterprise-ready distributor from a reseller. Certifications that count toward supplier diversity spend, verified through a national body rather than self-declared.”
“Yes. BLP is a certified Women's Business Enterprise through WBENC (the Women's Business Enterprise National Council), the certification standard most Fortune 500 supplier diversity programs recognize.”
“Tier 1 diverse spend is what your organization buys directly from certified diverse suppliers; Tier 2 supplier diversity is the diverse spend your prime vendors make on your behalf, which many enterprise programs also track and report.”
“Three mechanisms, in order of size. Volume leverage: pooling departmental purchases through one distributor unlocks pricing tiers no single department reaches, and BLP adds The PeerNet Group's $350M in collective buying power on top of your own volume.”
“BLP designs and produces custom awards and recognition pieces from our Dallas headquarters, from years-of-service awards to one-of-a-kind trophies. Our team designed the Lamar Hunt Family Trophy for the Dallas Open, one of only three major trophies bearing the Hunt name.”
“Catalog awards are pre-made pieces with your engraving added. Custom awards are designed from scratch around your brand, your moment, and your story. BLP does both: we select from tens of thousands of options when a proven piece fits, and design from zero when the moment deserves its own icon.”
“Pieces worth keeping: custom awards tied to real milestones, premium gifts employees choose themselves, and recognition that names the specific contribution. The strongest programs run year-round with consistent cadence, because 22% of employees say they get the right amount of recognition, according to Gallup and Workhuman, and the gap is the opportunity.”
“Yes, and full program management is the point. BLP handles the recipient data, engraving, annual updates, ordering windows, and delivery schedules, so your awards program runs on time every year without anyone chasing a vendor.”
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