A 19 inch foldable umbrella that opens to 90 cm across and collapses to 17 cm closed, small enough to keep permanently in a laptop bag, a glovebox or a desk drawer. That folded length is the deciding specification for a compact umbrella: it determines whether the umbrella is actually with the person when it rains.

The PET canopy sheds water quickly and dries without holding damp, and the folding frame keeps the closed size down at the cost of some wind resistance compared with a stick umbrella. In black it stays neutral for business use, and the panels give a clean printing area for a logo repeated around the canopy.

Compact umbrellas are ordered for employee welcome packs, conference giveaways in autumn and winter seasons, hotel guest amenities, and customer gifts by banks, insurers and estate agents. City marketing offices and tourist attractions keep them as a weather-day retail item, and companies with client-visiting sales teams issue them as standard kit.

MerchRepublic prints your logo across the canopy, packs and ships in bulk across the EU. Tell us your quantity and print colours and we will send a quotation.