Global Christmas Card Suppliers
Bulk Xmas Greeting Ideas & Wholesale Prices on China’s Alibaba.com
Suppliers from around the world have posted hundreds of sales leads for Christmas card retailers on alibaba.com, the world’s leading trade site.
Contact information for buying wholesale Christmas cards is available from merchants based in more than 20 countries, from the Philippines to Argentina. About 80% of suppliers are from mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
Handmade Seasons Greetings
Some listed Christmas greeting cards are handmade. For example, a company called Cards from Africa sells holiday cards that orphaned youth in Rwanda make from recycled office paper. Based in Nepal, Nepali Products hand makes its Christmas cards by boiling the dried inner bark of the wild shrub "lokta" with ash or a caustic soda solution to produce what are commonly referred to as rice paper cards. Thailand’s Tland Trading offers handmade holiday season cards manually prepared from high-quality mulberry papers.
Voice-Recorded Musical Messages
Other merchants sell high-tech Christmas cards. For example, Shanghai Weijun International Trading markets Christmas voice-recording cards that feature a 6 to 20 second recordable voice chip, a miniature microphone and a play button inside the card.
Generating about US$50 million in sales each year, Shanghai Weijun is an import and export company with a diverse product line ranging from fashion accessories to toys and games. Owned by American company Grand World, Shanghai Weijun has headquarters in both China and the U.S. The firm has large warehouses on two continents, and sells its Christmas card products mainly to North American and European customers.
Vendors like Hangzhou Jingxin Electronics specialize in cards with pre-recorded music. Each card plays a cheerful melody when opened. On alibaba.com, Hangzhou’s sales pitch for its musical cards promises "… melodious music that brings warmest regards and unlimited happiness all the time, especially as a gift to your friends." Some suppliers also embellish their pre-recorded melodies with special effects like blinking lights on the card.
Customized Shapes, Materials and Special Effects
Most suppliers listed on alibaba.com try to position their Christmas cards as unique by focusing on product quality. Fukang Packing & Printing sells specially designed shapes like the pentagon-shaped winter painting cards made with ivory board that resemble miniature houses.
Ningbo Weidong Packaging & Printing Factory focuses on cards made from a wide variety of materials including cloth-lined , corrrugated and copperplate papers. Requiring a minimum order of 100,000 packs, Guangzhou Jinguan Technology is able to customize full-colour printed cards with gold and silver accents, embossing, glittering, ultra violet varnishing, hot stamping and die cutting.
Wenzhou Haiba Printing’s specialty is Christmas cards featuring 3D photos.
Dongguan Shipai Printing Factory is a mid-sized Chinese company that employs its own staff of designers. The company can therefore create designs from customer specifications.
Another Christmas card maker on alibaba.com puts creative control into the hands of its customers. The smaller company Ningbo Topsource Foreign Trade. Ningbo sells design-your-own packs of 6 blank cards, 6 envelopes and 6 sets of accessories that customers can use to craft their own handmade Christmas cards.
