customize everything
With 45 years of experience, we are the most qualified to help you with custom t-shirt printing, embroidery, and promotional products that suit your brand and budget.
WE ARE THE EXPERTS AT PRINTING.
WE HAVE BEEN DOING THIS SINCE 1974.
screen printing
We were one of the first screen printing shops in BC. Today, we run a fully operational facility in the Olympic Village area of Vancouver, catering to large and small businesses, local bands, festivals, and non-profits.
Promotional Products
It’s a fact: promotional products are the best way to make a lasting, positive impression. We’ve printed thousands of promo products for businesses to give away, wedding favors, and even for band merch!
Corporate apparel
Embroidery, uniforms, aprons, hats – we’ve done it all. Whether you’re looking for new shirts for your staff or some custom hats for an event, we can help. We can customize a wide spectrum of products
Personal service
Art SOlutions
Fast Turn Around
Who We Are
Action Athletic Wear is a screen printing, embroidery and promotional product house in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. For over 41 years, we’ve been helping businesses, creatives and non-profits take an active role in their brands with quality merchandise and professional, custom printing.
After starting out with a single 4-colour manual press and 2 heat presses, Action Athletic Wear has since become a competitive leader in Vancouver’s screen printing, embroidery and promotional product industries. Our team works with everyone from large corporations to small, local start ups, as well touring acts, music festivals, and many bands in our independent music scene right here at home. We treat all our customers with the same respect and friendly face that we expect from our own suppliers, the same way we have since we started in 1974.
The decision to expand to promotional products 22 years ago was easy – offering other products would allow us to be a better source for our customers, who were often overwhelmed by working with multiple companies. Since then, we’ve carved out relationships with dozens of reputable suppliers here in Canada and internationally, allowing us to offer thousands of items at various price points. Our customers stay in budget and get the products that suit their brand, message and audience, all while we take care of everything behind the scenes.
Today, Action Athletic Wear is a family owned & operated business, with 4 relatives (2 generations) working side-by-side everyday to deliver exceptional service and quality products. Of course, it helps to have the support of talented, friendly employees!
OUR VALUE
Affordability
Reducing colour counts, finding cost-effective alternatives, and preparing artwork with production in mind are just a few ways we help our customers get the merchandise they want at a price that suits their wallet.
Responsibility
At Action, we are always looking for more ways to be sustainable. We always use recycled boxes from our suppliers, we reuse our rags after carefully washing them, we reuse old shirts dozens of times for test prints and we only mix the ink we need.
Efficiency
Great merchandise shouldn’t take months to produce. That’s why we offer rush services on most of our products, particularly our screen printing orders, to make sure you get your goods on time and on budget.
History
If you’ve owned any Expo ’86, Molson or 2010 Winter Games merchandise, it was produced, printed and shipped by our team. Owner Cal Deacon has been with Action since the doors first opened in 1974, and many of our staff members have been with us for 10+ years. As we have for so long, we will continue to grow and adapt to new technology, trends and attitudes.
RECENT WORK
It’s a fact: promotional products are the best way to make a lasting, positive impression. We’ve printed thousands of promo products for businesses to give away, wedding favors, and even for band merch!
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LEARN MORE ABOUT ACTION
We take pride in our reputation as a trusted, responsible source for merchandise. Over the course of 41 years, Action Athletic Wear has developed a reputation for helping businesses, creatives and non-profits take an active role in their brands with quality merchandise and professional, custom printing.
Our About section can give you more information on our ethics and clients.