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Corporate Gifting That Does Not End Up in a Drawer

Branded giveaways get binned. Here is what changes when the recipient's own name is on the gift instead of your logo.

Every company has a cupboard of unwanted branded objects. The reason is simple: a gift covered in your logo is an advertisement you asked someone else to store.

The one change that fixes it

Put the recipient's name on it and your branding on the card. The object becomes theirs, the credit is still yours, and nobody has to decide whether it is acceptable to put your logo on their desk.

Budget by relationship, not by headcount

  • Broad thank-yous (many recipients, low intimacy): one small engraved piece each, personalized with their name.
  • Key clients and long-standing staff: a cased set or a complete gift box. These are the ones people photograph.
  • Milestones (five years, retirement, a completed project): one substantial engraved piece with the date on it. This is the gift that ends up on a shelf at home, not in the office.

Lead times are the thing people get wrong

A hundred individually engraved pieces is not the same job as one piece done a hundred times - each name is a separate setup, a separate preview and a separate check. Plan on 10-15 working days for bulk orders, and longer in December. Send the name list as a spreadsheet, spelled exactly as each person spells it.

Things to avoid

  1. Alcohol as a default. You do not know who drinks, and it is awkward to decline publicly.
  2. Anything sized - clothing guesses go wrong and create an obligation to pretend.
  3. Gifts that need the recipient to do admin, like a code to redeem on a site that needs an account.
  4. Identical gifts for wildly different relationships. People compare notes.

Delivery and paperwork

We can ship to one office or to each recipient's home address, worldwide, with tracking per parcel. Invoices are issued in GBP with your company details, and we can supply what your finance team needs before dispatch rather than after it.

Made by hand, personalized for one person

Everything in these guides is something we make. Send us the names, the date and the message, approve the layout, and we will craft and ship it.

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