What "private label" actually means on a shaker line
Most buyers who ask for private label shaker bottles want three things separated out, because each one carries a different cost and a different lead time. Worth splitting them before you ask anyone for a price.
Your logo on the bottle. On our BPA-free plastic shakers (TG-1007, TG-1012, TG-1020) that is silk-screen or heat transfer. Silk-screen is the workhorse for one to three colours and it survives a gym bag; heat transfer is what you use when the artwork wraps the body or fades between colours. On the 304 stainless shakers (TG-1011, TG-1019, TG-1021) laser marking gives you a permanent mark that cannot scratch off, but it reads as steel-on-steel, not as your brand colour — if you need a coloured logo on stainless, we spray the body first, then print.
Your colour. Stock colours ship at the 500-piece MOQ. A matched Pantone on the bottle, lid and mixing ball is a 1,000-piece MOQ because we mix and purge the resin for your run. Brands often forget the mixing ball is a separate moulded part — a black ball in a white bottle is free, a Pantone-matched ball is not.
Your packaging. This is where private label shaker cups differ most from a plain wholesale order: a printed sleeve, a colour box, a barcode that scans, and an insert card. For gym chains and sports-nutrition sellers we print the UPC or EAN straight onto the box and scan-test it before the carton is sealed — a barcode that will not scan at a retail till is the one defect that gets a whole shipment rejected, and we have seen it happen to buyers who came to us afterwards.
Shakers for gyms, studios and supplement brands
Branded shaker bottles for gyms are a different brief from retail. Gyms buy for resale at the front desk and for member welcome packs, so the two things that matter are cost per unit at volume and a lid that survives being thrown in a bag every day. We steer gym programmes to TG-1007 (400 ml, mixing ball) or TG-1020 (400 and 600 ml) — plastic keeps the landed cost down, and the flip cap is the part we test hardest.
Supplement brands buying for e-commerce usually want the 600 ml storage-base model (TG-1012), because a shaker that carries powder for a second serve photographs better on a listing and justifies a higher price. Studios and premium fitness brands go stainless — TG-1019 (500 and 750 ml, measuring scale) or TG-1021 (600 ml, scale and storage tray) — where the shaker doubles as a retail gift rather than a giveaway.
Whichever way you buy — direct, or through a sourcing agent who already handles your QC — ask for the leak test before you commit a container. Ours is simple and we will film it for you: filled to capacity, lid closed, inverted and shaken for thirty seconds, then stood on paper. Any shaker that marks the paper does not ship.
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Pair shakers with sport bottles or a gym gift set for a complete fitness range.
