There is a chair from J Voich Designs that they actually call a bag chair. It doubles as a tote bag for your trips to the beach or sporting events. They even say it great for a needlepoint tote. Constructed with a hard birch wood frame and canvas seat it normally retails for eighty five ($85) dollars, but is on sale for only $49.99. It can support up to two hundred sixty five pounds and comes with a built in pillow as a head rest. Weighing three and a half pounds it is a premium product designed to last for many years.
The ‘bag’ chair as most people know it is constructed on a metal frame with a nylon back, seat and arms usually with a matching color carry bag with a strap. Frames vary in strength and material and the fabrics range from simple nylon to padded nylons and canvasses. The bag chair has become a staple in the promotional product industry which offers many styles in various colors that can be imprinted on both the chair and the carry bag with your company logo or event logo in one or more colors.
Northpole is a manufacturer of tents, sleeping bags, packs and chairs that has been the private label supplier for Kmart, Wal-Mart, Sears, Sportsman’s Warehouse and many other regional and national retailers. Due to the fact that they can screen logos on the chair fabric prior to the chair being constructed there is usually only a minimal charge in addition to the chair cost when wanting your company logo on the product. Minimums are much higher (one thousand pieces or more), but the resulting cost savings is significant. Wholesale cost on a standard bag chair with six hundred denier (600D) nylon seats with a single color print was less than five dollars in 2007 so that it could be retailed for $14.99 and $9.99 on sale while making full mark up and getting their name out in the public eye.
If you are looking for portable chairs to take camping or to go to your kids’ sporting events you can still find a decent chair for less than fifteen dollars. If you want thicker fabric, padding or other bells and whistles expect to pay a bit more.