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About Magnista

We turn a destination into a product that sells off a rack.

Magnista coordinates custom souvenir magnet programmes for destination retail — the specification, the tooling, the sampling and the run.

What we do

A specification problem before it is a manufacturing problem.

Most souvenir magnet programmes fail at the specification, not at the production line. The artwork is chosen for how it looks on a screen rather than how it reads at arm's length on a rack. The process is chosen on unit price, then the finish fades through a season of coastal sun. The tooling is scoped for one destination, so the second one starts the cost from zero.

Magnista works the specification first: which process suits the destination, what the artwork has to lose to survive that process, and how the tooling should be scoped so the range can grow. Pieces are then produced to your specification by our production partner, against a physical sample you have signed off.

The name is magnet plus -ista — the suffix for someone who does one thing properly. That is the whole positioning: a narrow category, done carefully, for buyers who restock it every season.

How we think about tooling

Tooling is paid for once.
Destinations are not.

A destination range is not a set of unrelated products. It is one proven design, reprinted for each place you stock. Once the mold exists, the second and third destination carry no tooling cost — which is why a range should be scoped as a range from the first order, not assembled one product at a time.

It also changes what you should name. The specific beach, island or old town outsells a country-level label, because the visitor is buying proof of where they stood.

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A good fit if

  • You restock the same category every season and care what it looks like in year three.
  • You cover more than one destination and want the range scoped accordingly.
  • You would rather approve a physical sample than a rendering.
  • You need the specification interrogated, not just quoted.
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Probably not a fit if

  • You need stock this month — custom tooling and sampling take the time they take.
  • You want a catalogue item with a logo dropped on it. That is a printing job, and printers do it cheaper.
  • Unit price is the only variable that matters to you.
  • You need one piece, or a few. This is a wholesale programme.

Start with the destinations you cover.

Send the list, plus artwork or a reference piece if you have one. You get back a process recommendation, the tooling implications and a price — not a catalogue.

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