Thursday, November 8, 2012

Top Corporate Gifts

It is a very sad person who does not love to receive corporate gifts. Almost everyone has it built into their system to live receiving gifts. But you may say that you know people who do not like receiving gifts. I know that my dad is one of those people who always say that you must not get him anything. But I now that he secretly hopes that he will get something. As a corporate gift supplier we have a lot samples. I can use my father a barometer for popular corporate gifts. When he comes to visit, I get a feel for what he likes. When I visit him in the eastern Cape and I have some of our gifts with us, then he breaks out of the “don’t get me anything” mode and starts telling me how much he would like to have whatever I have brought with me. Over the last few years, these are the corporate gifts that I have given my dad after he gets that “Oh, I would just love to have this” look. One Christmas we brought a car emergency kit with us. On one side, it had jumper cables, a few other car related items and then on the other side it had medical items. Once my father saw this, I just knew that we would be leaving this corporate gift behind. As there is no coffee station at his new job, the thermal coffee mug was a winner as he makes his coffee in the morning and takes with him to work in the mornings. Thermal coffee mugs make great all year round corporate gifts as well as year end gifts. As a buyer at a previous company, my father received a great many corporate gifts. Some he used a lot and some he left in the cupboard. One of the most popular corporate gifts that I have seen him use, were luggage. He really loves all kinds of bags, overnight bags, travel bags, tog bags. Bags make great corporate gifts and we also have a terrific Indestruktible range of corporate bags. One thing that I know about my dad is that he really gets a thrill out of getting corporate gifts. He often shows off the corporate gifts that one of his suppliers has given to him, as they make him feel valued by his suppliers. My father is a no nonsense kind of guy. He says it the way that it is gets the best prices out of his suppliers and would be a terrific companion when visiting a country where you have to haggle. But he is quite willing to spend just a little more time on suppliers who make him feel valued. So if you are wondering if giving out corporate gifts if worth it, if I go by my father’s personality, it definitely is worthwhile.

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