Archive for December, 2008
Friday, December 26th, 2008
The Corporate Gifts Company have totally revamped our home page and templates to do justice to our unique collection of quality design-led corporate gifts.
We tried to put ourselves in the buyer’s shoes and immediately felt sorry for you guys out there sourcing your corporate incentives. Why? Well, there’s a lot of very “samey” looking corporate and business gift websites out there. ; how do you decide which website to contact? Not only that, with the bewildering choice of product they feature, how do you wade through the promotional products on there to find something that is suitable for your promotion?
Now, the Corporate Gifts Company are not trying to be all things to all buyers (to be honest, I’m not sure anyone could honestly pull that one off) but we have a very specific quality design-led range of promotional items and we felt that our site needed to tell you that from the very first millisecond that you viewed the home page. And we wanted to make it a bit Chritmassy too.
Hope you like it; www.corporate-gifts-co.com
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Saturday, December 20th, 2008
Just like every other office, I guess, here at The Corporate Gifts company we have jumped on the chance to talk about something other than the credit crunch and we’ve boarded the bandwagon to put our twopenneth worth of ill informed opinion about the the BBC’s recent unpleasantness. Well, whaddaya know, seemingly like the rest of the country, our office was definitely divided along age lines (gosh I hope that isn’t an ageist remark!).
Basically, the over 35 disgusted of Tunbridge Wells type were…well, disgusted, and the our resident Y Generation upstarts couldn’t understand what all the fuss was about.
Afganistan, Iraq, USA presidential elections, world recession, etc, etc and we in the UK are obsessed with a schoolyard prank gone too far! I’m sure this “scandal” is just like a sorbet course of a really expensive meal; refreshing the palate so that we can really get stuck into the main course of how far the world will tip into recession in the next few weeks, months and even years.
What Jonathon Ross and Russell Brand need is a bit of positive PR. For the 35,000 (and counting) disgusted of Tunbridge Wellsians, a sensitively chosen corporate gift engraved with a message of heartfelt contrition drop shipped directly to their door is just what the spin doctor would order. The Corporate Gifts Co could do that for them (cyinical I know, but we’re always looking for sales opportunities).
Anyway we decided to call for ideas in the office as to the most appropriate gift.
How about;
This photoframe to put a picture of a proper radio presenter in (Terry Wogan perhaps?) http://www.corporate-gifts-co.com/acatalog/corporate_gifts_photo_frames.html
A pen – so they can write more complaints http://www.corporate-gifts-co.com/acatalog/corporate_gifts_milan_ballpoint_in_a_chrome_box.htm
Notebook – to write more….yes you guessed it http://www.corporate-gifts-co.com/acatalog/corporate_gifts_pocket_notebook_pen.html
Put a cork in it and have a drink instead (my favourite) http://www.corporate-gifts-co.com/acatalog/corporate_gifts_cone_wine_bottle_stopper.html
See how good we are, and we weren’t even trying really. If you’d like us to suggest an appropriate corporate gift or promotional premium for your company or promotional event, please give our expert sales team a call!!!
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Monday, December 15th, 2008
The Corporate Gifts Company are delighted to publish our CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) on our website.
The Corporate Gifts Company are members of SEDEX; The Supplier Ethical Data Exchange which aims to provide transparency in supply chains to the standards of the ETI base code (the internationally recognised standard for ethical trading). Check out our policy at;
http://www.corporate-gifts-co.com/acatalog/corporate_social_responsibility.html
This is an ongoing process and The Corporate Gifts Company will soon be able to guarantee ethically sourced product clearly labelled on the website – watch this space!
Of course, a lot of our product is already responsibly manufactured and sourced. For example; sterling silver items are made in the UK so carbon footprint is lower than imported items, any waste material is recycled, and the products themselves can be recycled (if anybody would actually want to do that with one of our sterling silver gifts). Check out our range at;
http://www.corporate-gifts-co.com/acatalog/corporate_gifts_sterling_silver.html
Leather is a natural material, the waste or offcuts are made into smaller leather items or can be recycled into bonded leather (as can the finished items themselves). See our exclusive range of leather promotional items at;
http://www.corporate-gifts-co.com/acatalog/corporate_gifts_leather.html
And if you’re looking for an award with a conscience, why not try our slate or marble options; 150 million years old, UK quarried and manufactured. The look fantastic too.
http://www.corporate-gifts-co.com/acatalog/corporate_gifts_bespoke_awards.html
For any enquiries about specific products or recycled, recyclable, or ethically sourced options, please call our sales team.
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Thursday, December 11th, 2008
Memory sticks or flash drives have been one of the most popular promotional items of the past two or three years. When they initially hit the promo market their novelty alone propelled them to business gift stardom. Their popularity was maintained as the price dropped dramatically and the memory size increased (here at the Corporate Gifts Company we can remember getting excited selling our first 64mb flash drives – now we couldn’t give them away)!
Why are they so popular? Like all really popular promotional items, the flash drive combines real usefulness, is used by virtually everybody in the work environment, can be branded effectively with a corporate logo or promotional message, and is extremely desirable. They have become an indispensable part of modern computing and due to their popularity they have been innovated and developed.
New styles, designs, shapes; the choice is now bewildering. At the forefront of this development is the innovation of totally bespoke shapes incorporate branding and corporate colours.
Tooling and set up is surprisingly low, as are minimum quantities. Make use of our free design service and the Corporate Gifts Company will create a selection of bespoke options to help you realise the perfect solution to fit your corporate identity or promotional goals.
Call our sales team today on 0845 430 2902.
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Friday, December 5th, 2008
I’m sure most of you will have an idea of what engraving is, but I guess the majority will probably think of the little chap at the Open Golf Championship hand engraving the winners name at the last minute, or maybe the guy in the shoe repair shop who has a 50 year old manual engraving machine in the corner of his shop.
Times have moved on, but people still equate engraving with quality, and moreover the overall quality of the item or gift. So when buying promotional items, what does engraving mean in terms of reproducing your corporate logo?
There are many types of “marking” methods for advertising gifts, cheaper promo items tend to be printed as this is very cost effective. Leather can be embossed or blocked. Glass can be engraved or sand blasted. Etc, etc, etc. When it comes to metal items the most common method of branding is either diamond or laser engraving.
Here at the Corporate Gift Company we use diamond engraving. Laser engraving is particularly good in some circumstances and it’s resolution is particularly good on fine detail. As it actually burns the surface of the metal, however, it can effect can look “burnt” and a bit yellowy. Even when it is good it looks like a grey print. In which case, why not print it instead? Print is associated with promo giveaways, so if you are paying £20 for a promotional clock or desk item, why would you choose a branding method that cheapens the product. After all, a promotional product is all about perception and impact, so it is important to enhance the perceived value of your corporate gift, not lessen it.
At the Corporate Gifts Company we have 10 state of the art computerised diamond engraving machines to give you the quality and turnaround times necessary to make your promotion a success. Logos are plotted, vectorised and digitised using specialist software and the item is then engraved reproducing your logo as you’ve never seen it before. But even though the engraving machines are computerised, it still uses a diamond tip to mark the surface of the metal, giving the logo a shimmer that no other marking method can match, enhancing and increasing the perceived value of your corporate incentive.
Of course it’s a matter of personal taste, but 20 years of experience tells us that if you want to make the biggest impact with your executive gift, then diamond engraving is the best choice.
Call our sales team today on 0845 430 9202 to find out how we can translate your logo for maximum promotional impact.
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