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Jun 9 2021
By Tom

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Ultimate Corporate Gift Ideas

We have done the hard work for you and painstaking researched the best corporate gift ideas out there.

No gimmicks or cheap promotional gifts here.

With brands such as Aesop, Neom and Neals Yard Dairy, it really is a rundown of the absolute best corporate gift ideas we could find.

1. The Cocktail Society

The Cocktail Society offers a number of corporate gifting products all based around drinks including bottled cocktails, cocktail making kits and cocktail hampers. The products are all super-premium and also customisable with branded labels, sleeves, messaging and even bespoke cocktails or cocktail boxes for your clients and team. The Cocktail Society also handles all packaging and logistics.

The Cocktail Society is run by a team of drinks industry experts and their products have been gifted by the Brit Awards, Google and Facebook.

What Is It?

DIY Cocktail Kits/Bottled Cocktails/Bespoke Cocktail Hampers

How Much Does It Cost?

Starting at £12 + VAT

2. Whittard

Tea stalwarts Whittard offer a range of bespoke hampers and gift boxes packed to the gunnels with their stunning products (teas, coffee or hot chocolates) as well as a number of other treats to compliment the hot drinking experiences.
The hampers and gift are beautifully packaged and come with a gift messaging option to make an awesome corporate gift experience for your clients and team members.

What Is It?

Hampers and Gift Boxes with Whittard products

How Much Does It Cost?

Starting at £17.50

3. Hotel Chocolate

The high street chocolate supremos do a great range of chocolatey corporate gifts that are a proven winner with clients and teams alike. Everything about Hotel Chocolate is premium and you are able to send a range of their products with personalised packaging, gift messaging and they offer bulk discounts. As you’d imagine its seamless from a customer service perspective.

What Is It?

Chocolate gifts from the companies range

How Much Does It Cost?

Starting at £8.00

4. Aesop

The awesome cosmetics brand Aesop have branched into corporate gifting and offer a unique corporate gifting idea for your company. They offer a wide range of gift boxes and products that are beautifully packaged and the ideal gifting offer for certain industries like fashion or beauty (the Aesop brand is highly regarded in the luxury sector) Products include soaps, sprays oils and scrubs and their gift packs are great including the Jet Set travelling gift box.

What Is It?

A range of luxury cosmetics

How Much Is It?

Starting at £7.00

5. Smythson Of Bond Street

Purveyors of luxe leather goods, Smythson products are the height of luxury. A range of leather-bound notepads, diaries and other products that are fully personalisable awaits you with Smythson and is the ideal corporate gift for the more discerning. If budgets stretch they also offer other corporate gifting products such as travel carry cases briefcases, laptop bags and briefcases.

At the top end, they offer bespoke, handcrafted commissions.

What Is It?

Luxury Leather Goods

How Much Does It Cost?

Starting at £85

Why Do Corporate Gifting

Corporate gifting is a great touchpoint for both clients and your employees. Particularly in the current climate and with the propensity for remote working, a well time gift can make a huge impact in terms of loyalty and satisfaction.

6. Crosstown Doughnuts

Ok so definitely not your traditional vision of a corporate gift but one that can have an epic impact of the receiver. Crosstown are known for being the word of gourmet doughnuts and they have now branched into offering a corporate gifting service. Everything from PR drops through to off the shelf hampers and branded doughnuts and gift boxes these guys have you covered.
What really caught the eye was the fully branded options that included doughnuts with company logos on them and fully branded presentation boxes – guaranteed to put people in their happy place. We can see this working particularly well for an office or team gift when everyone is in the same room.

What Is It

Gourmet Doughnuts

How Much Does It Cost

Starting at £15 per box

7. Bloom & Wild

The flower delivery specialists of course do a range of corporate gifting options. Bloom & Wild have built their company into a market leader in the flower gifting market over the last few years and their flower deliveries, neatly packaged in a mailer that will fit through your letterbox, it’s a great way to send a gift to people in several different locations.

And it’s not just flowers, Bloom & Wild offer gifts in the form of house plants as well as a number of extras you can add to your bouquets in the form of chocolates, scented candles and vases.

What Is It

Flowers

How Much Does It Cost

Starting at £20

8. Bettys

Bettys is a genuine institution and probably the most famous team room brand in the world. And its not just an epic cream tea that the company can offer, they are now offering a range of corporate gifts that draw on the ludicrous skills of their skilled bakers, chocolatiers and pâtissiers. All the gifts are beautifully pacakaged and dispatched on our behalf by the Betty’s team. A delicious corporate gift idea.

What Is It

Edible treats from the iconic tearoom brand.

How Much Does It Cost

Starting From £15

9. Cowshed

The cosmetics brand powered by the Soho House group will go down incredibly well with the creative set. Their stunning soaps, washes and oils come in equally stunning gift packaging that it super-premium and will set the bar very high. But that’s not all, a number of other Soho House products are on offer from their incredible scented candles through to books and dressing gowns. Soho House do things really, really well always so you will be in great hands if you pick them to be your corporate gift service to reward your teams.

What Is It

Range of Soho House products and Cosmetics

How Much Does It Cost

Starting at £12

10. Honest Brew

One of the leading online, craft beer brands Honest Brew offers corporate gifting in the form of their “Craft Beer Introduction” and “The Sampler” case products. As with our very own products, receiving alcohol as a gift direct to your door is great on so many levels and what’s more Honest Brew curate some amazing beer. So what are you waiting for, time to get stuck into the 500 or so beers they have on offer for your corporate gift solution.

What Is It

Beer

How Much Does It Cost

Starting at £15

11. Cutter & Squidge

An all-natural handmade bakery that makes all manner of cakes. Biscuits and sweet treats in their nice looking packaging. What we like about Cutter & Squidge is their approach, yes they are baking cakes and brownies but they don’t unnecessarily pack their creations with extra sugar or cheap ingredients – and it shows. For corporate orders, they have a range of hampers and bespoke products and they’ll handle all the logistics too. Easy.

What Is It

Cakes & Biscuits

How Much Is It

Prices start at £9.90

12. T2

T2 made tea sexy and trendy when they first set it up a few years ago. Tea is a big deal in the UK and we are certainly a nation of big tea drinkers. With T2’s innovative products and stunning packaging, this is as premium as a corporate gift based on tea can get. They offer a range of off the shelf products and some of their items are customisable. We love this as a corporate gift idea (mainly because we love their packaging)

What Is It

Tea

How Much Is It

Prices start at £5

13. Neals Yard Dairy

Cheese. Everyone loves cheese. Neals Yard Dairy offer corporate gifting of their cheese products and can create a bespoke solution based on budget, taste and other customisations. Neals Yard Dairy is a super premium purveyor of fine cheeses so the product and aesthetics are top-notch.

What Is It?

Cheese

How Much Is It?

Prices start at £35

14. Cadbury

Cadbury Corporate Gifts send the UK’s favourite chocolates, tidily packaged in their famous purple colours. They offer a range of mixed chocolate boxes and large bars of many of the classics such as Dairy Milk, Roses, Flakes, Crunchy and Twirls. What’s really cool is Cadbury offer the opportunity to customise the packaging with bespoke messaging on the labels, which to be honest with you would be an awesome corporate gift. They handle all logistics and offer corporate discounts.

What Is It

Chocolate

How Much Is It

Prices start at £10

15. Space NK

Specialist skincare and beauty leaders Space NK offer corporate gifts that access the 150+ luxury brands they work with. They can curate a luxury corporate gifting solution for your clients, colleagues and new partnerships that will have that wow factor. They offer stunning gift wrapping, free next day delivery and a corporate gifting advisor to smooth the whole process for you.

What Is It

Beauty and Cosmetics

How Much Is It

Prices start at £19

16. Swell

Swell has been creating awesome water bottles since 2010, originally with the vision to rid the world of single-use plastic. What better a corporate gift for your team or clients than a gift with such a strong ethos behind it? Swell’s product is neat, highly functional (unlike some of the cheap promotional water bottles on the market which we would avoid at all costs) and can come fully branded. They also work for both hot and cold products, promising to keep cold cold for 36 hours and hot hot for 18. The minimum order is not too bad either at 48 units.

What Is It?

Branded Water Bottles

How Much Is It?

Prices start at £17.50 per unit

17. Neom Organics

Neom products are incredibly popular and with good reason – they are awesome. They offer a range of different products including candles, diffusers and other well-being products that are focused on organic oils and scents. Their pitch in terms of corporate gifting is to give the gift of sleep, less stress or happiness which we like and they have products tailored to all of these goals. The team at Neom offer full account management and corporate discounts for larger orders.

What is It

Organic Wellbeing Products

How Much Is It?

Prices Start at £15 per person.

18. Parker Pens

Parker is the pen brand that virtually everyone has heard of. They have been producing luxury pens for over 125 years, hold two Royal Warrants and are world-renowned for their craftsmanship, style and innovation. So when it comes to corporate gifts that need to strike the right chord with your team of clients then Parker will have you covered. All parker Pens come in luxurious packaging and they have a team to deal with your corporate gifting enquiry from start to finish.

What is It

Luxury Pens

How Much Is It

Prices start at £9.99

19. Virgin Wines

A corporate gift that will never get old is a curated box of wine. Virgin are one of the big players in the wine club world and they have a fully-fledged corporate gifting department to assist with choosing the perfect corporate gift. In their own words, no budget is too big or small and they offer a range of branding options. As well as the wine they also have a range of corporate gifts including whisky, gins and more (a company after our own heart here at The Cocktail Society)

What Is It

Wine Gifts

How Much Is It?

Prices Start at £15

20. Rave Coffee

One of our favourite coffee brands, do awesome coffee and coffee gifts. While a roastery at its heart, it has supplemented its stunning coffee with a number of products including coffee bundles, AeroPress coffee sets and coffee cups. Now although they don’t advertise that corporate gifting is amongst its repertoire we think they will be well geared up to offer a corporate gift solution around coffee, particularly if their thriving e-commerce business is anything to go by.

What Is it

Coffee

How Much Is It?

Prices Start at £16.25

What Do Clients & Staff Really Want From Corporate Gifts?

Some research commissioned by luxury food and beverage provider, Cartwright & Butler, assessed UK businesses’ corporate gifting habits. The research revealed that businesses typically spend more on gifts for clients than staff.

What’s more, over half at 57% spend between £50-£150 per client gift, compared to 43%, who admitted to spending less than £50 on employees.

Most interestingly, food and beverage products were the most sought after corporate gift from recipients, with almost a half at 49% preferring chocolates, hampers and alcohol as opposed to gift vouchers at 47%, technological items at 28% and stationary at 27%

Jun 9 2021
By Tom

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