Barcelos Rooster Fridge Magnet RC-R09

Product Overview

The hearts and scallops are laid out symmetrically either side of the body, which is what makes a folk motif look authentic rather than approximate.

Portuguese souvenir wholesalers and folk craft retail across Iberia. It is produced in the same soft moulding process as the rest of the zodiac sign range, in Yiwu, Zhejiang, China.

Key Benefits

• Colour moulded through the body, so the artwork on RC-R09 cannot rub off with handling
• Pantone matched, so a reorder in eighteen months sits next to the original without a visible shift
• Tooling retained here between orders, so a repeat run skips development entirely
• Trial quantities accepted below the 5,000 pcs MOQ so you can prove sell-through first

Application Scenarios

• Lunar New Year retail gift sets and hamper inserts
• Corporate New Year keepsakes for staff and clients
• Bank and telecom customer giveaways in Asian markets
• Restaurant and hospitality seasonal promotions

Problems It Solves

Zodiac programmes fail on calendar arithmetic. Artwork gets approved in November, tooling starts in December, and the container misses the holiday by two weeks. The stock is then dead for a full cycle.

• A deadline that cannot move. Working back from a New Year date, artwork approved with roughly ten weeks to spare clears sampling, tooling, production and sea freight.
• Sets, not singles. Four-piece sets raise the basket value on a gift purchase without four times the tooling, because the pieces share one mould plate.
• Folk styles that travel. Flower-pattern hens, farmyard characters and the Barcelos rooster all read as the same animal to different markets.

Specifications

Dimensions and weight are set per design at drawing stage and confirmed on the quotation, so they are shown as quoted rather than guessed here.

How It Is Made

Artwork becomes a mould drawing, the drawing becomes an aluminium tool, colour is laid into the cavities one colour at a time, and heat cures the whole part into a single soft body. The fixing, a magnet recess, a ring eyelet or a strap anchor, is designed into the body rather than added afterwards.

Finished parts are checked against the approved reference sample held here, not against a photograph or a colour description.

Customisation Options

Compared With Printed Alternatives

Use Guide

Wipe clean with a damp cloth. The surface is closed, so it does not absorb dirt the way a porous material would. Keep out of prolonged direct sunlight in shop windows where possible.

Some stainless steel and aluminium clad appliance doors are not magnetic at all. In markets where those are common, a line on the packaging saves customer complaints.