Sustainable corporate gifts without the greenwashing
The greenest corporate gift is the one that gets kept. Most of what is sold as sustainable merchandise fails that test before it fails any other.
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Corporate Gifts
Everything we have written about corporate gifts.
Christmas gifts for hotels, restaurants and tour operators
Hospitality runs on returning guests, travel agents and suppliers. A gift with a sense of place does more for those relationships than more wine.
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Awards for the office Christmas party that people keep
The end-of-year awards are often the part of the party people remember. The trophies, usually, are not. They can be.
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Corporate gifts your clients are actually allowed to accept
A gift that breaks the recipient's gift policy gets returned, declared or left at reception. It can also embarrass the person you meant to thank.
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Sending corporate Christmas gifts across Europe
Clients in Milan, staff in Munich, a partner in Lisbon. Getting one gift to all of them is a logistics problem first and a design problem second.
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Scale models of your building as a client gift
A developer's best client gift is the building itself, small enough to fit on a shelf. It is also something almost nobody else can give.
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Christmas gifts for iGaming and tech companies in Malta
International teams, offices in three countries, a brand guide forty pages long and a December deadline. Gifting at a Maltese tech company is its own problem.
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Custom Christmas decorations for offices and shopfronts
Decorations are the one December spend that can be reused for years — which changes how you should choose them.
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Last-minute Christmas corporate gifts: what's possible
It is December and nothing has been decided. Here is what can still be made properly, what cannot, and how to tell the difference quickly.
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Christmas gifts for staff: what people actually keep
Your team knows exactly how much thought went in. That is the whole difficulty, and it is not solved by spending more.
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Christmas client gifts that do not look like everyone else's
Your client receives a dozen of these in December, most from suppliers they cannot name afterwards. Being remembered is a design problem, not a budget one.
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When should you order Christmas corporate gifts?
Earlier than you think, and for a reason that has nothing to do with how long printing takes. Work backwards from the date you hand them over.
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What to give for employee milestones, and what to avoid
A ten-year award and a welcome gift are different jobs. The thing that makes either one work is specificity, and it is cheaper than it sounds.
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What actually works as event merchandise?
The best stand giveaway is not the cheapest one you can hand to everybody. It is the one a decision-maker carries home on a plane.
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How to brief a branded gift that does not end up in a drawer
Most corporate gifts fail at the brief, not the budget. Four questions that decide whether a recipient keeps the thing or quietly bins it.
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Can you match our exact brand colours?
Close, usually. Exactly, sometimes. Here is what filament colour can and cannot do, and the two routes to a genuine Pantone match.
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