Business gift giving season is fast approaching, and as usual we’ve got a great range of products (and our annual Business Gifts catalog) that allow you to find the perfect way to say ‘thanks’ to important customers, donors, volunteers, suppliers or other ‘VIP’s’.

If you’re looking for unique gift that you can really feel good about giving, we’re excited to be offering a couple of products produced by Women Helping Other Women (WHOW).  WHOW is a non-profit organization that helps women who find themselves in difficult situations. They offer training, education and employment to women who have had to seek refuge in a domestic violence center or other shelter. The founder and board members work without compensation and the proceeds from the work they do go to scholarships.

WHOW uses original recipes, bakery skills and  kitchen creativity to create more than just award-winning (and super-delicious) products – they create self esteem, emotional and physical health and opportunities for women looking to start a new life.

WHOW’s specialty is fruitcake – and not the ‘I’m-not-sure-what’s-in-this-thing-called-fruitcake’ stuff you see around the holidays.  Their cakes are one-of-a-kind, all-natural, tasty goodness. We’re offering a couple of different versions – one is a 1lb Cake and Coffee combo in a gold box with your logo , and the other is a ‘triple pack’  of three different 1lb cakes in tin with your logo.

So, if you’re considering a ‘gourmet gift’, I hope you’ll consider a WHOW product.  In a way, you’d be giving two gifts at once!

For some, giving a bottle of wine is an appropriate (and appreciated) business gift - especially if the recipient is a wine enthusiast.  By adding just a couple of small touches you can take that gift to the next level by adding fun packaging and items like imprinted wine openers, wine charms or logo’d wine stoppers (you can find lots of accessories here). The wine openers also make a nice giveaway at food and wine shows, weddings and other celebrations or if you’re just looking for a nice items to give to a wine drinker.

Kristin’s video below demos a value-priced opener (the Sonoma Wine Opener), and I’ve added a picture of one of the types of packaging that works well.  Cheers!

Bottle Boxes Make a Bottle of Wine a Logo'd Gift

Promotional products have a wide variety of uses - giveaways at trade shows, awareness campaigns, brand support, recruiting or recognition, phone number/web site recall – all sorts of things.  Often times promotional items are used as a ‘thank you’ or business gift. When that’s the case, you can often turn a ‘wow’ into a ‘WOW‘ just by thinking about, and ‘upgrading’ the presentation packaging.

Consider a gifts box, vibrant tissue paper or some other kind of packaging. This little ‘extra’ make a big impact and tells the recipient you really thought about them as your were putting things together. Plus, who doesn’t love that ‘prize inside’ feeling?

Our merchandising crew has added some fun new packaging goodies to get the thought process going next time you need to say ‘thanks’!