Chocolate Corporate Gifts

Posted By Julie on May 16, 2012

Speciality Chocolate Fair is the UK’s only dedicated trade event for fine and artisan chocolate, providing a unique and focused platform to showcase luxury and gourmet chocolate to top buyers. The event will take place on 2 – 4 September 2012 at Grand Hall, Olympia, London.

It is 3 days show which will be attended by Professionals related to the field of chocolate lovers, chocoholics and chocolate connoissuers, chocolate importers/distributors and agents, chocolate makers. It is a unique opportunity to taste and source the very best chocolate products from a wide range of chocolatiers and producers.

Chocolate artisans and pastry chefs will descend on Speciality Chocolate Fair to showcase their creations in a bid to be crowned National Chocolate Master. Each finalist will have to produce a chocolate cake, two pralines, a dessert and one artistic creation.

The champion will then go on to compete in the World Chocolate Masters in Paris in 2013, the world’s leading culinary contest dedicated solely to the art of chocolate. Created in 2005, the Chocolate Masters is an initiative by Cacao Barry, Callebaut and Carma, which has developed a unique identity for being the most challenging chocolate contest in the world, focusing on the individual skills of each contestant.

More than 5,700 visitors visited the Speciality Chocolate Fair last year! Whether you’re a chocolate lover, or just want an excuse for a fun weekend away, the Speciality Chocolate Fair is a tempting idea.

You don’t have to wait till September to buy corporate executive gifts. Thorntons’ ‘Chocoholic Hamper’ is the perfect corporate gift, crammed full of luxury chocolate, including Thorntons’ popular Continental Viennese Truffles and tasty Moments.

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Posted By Julie on May 11, 2012

Culinary team building is big, and for good reason. Everyone loves chocolate, so what could be better than a team building activity that includes chocolate? Team building has never been so sweet!

 This is a super fun way to energize a sales conference, or to simply reward your employees for a job well done. The benefits in productivity will last long after the last chocolate has vanished!

 Have your cake! This delicious activity capitalises on team’s creativity and sweet tooth. This is a great event to do before or after a meal and can be enjoyed in lieu of your dessert or in addition to dessert. Or, you can even take these cake masterpieces back to the office! Teams are challenged to design and decorate cakes to reflect their team, their company and more. This event can be done completely with chocolate from the layer cakes to icing to decorations! Your team, goals, objectives, and theme of meeting/event needs to be included in your cake!

The chocolate tasting is a fun and entertaining experience – a tasting tour through the history of chocolate along with instruction on how to enjoy and appreciate high-end chocolates. This is like a wine tasting… only better.

Obviously, there will be a lot of chocolate eating during the team building. Leaving this small pleasure only for the participants, wouldn’t it be nice to enjoy the pleasure of giving? That is why every participant can make it’s own gift hamper with their own hand made chocolates and even personalize the special chocolate boxes. What an unforgettable personalised gift it will be!

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Posted By Julie on May 9, 2012

Chocolate isn’t what it used to be, thanks to an increasing number of artisanal chocolatiers who are creating singular confections made with higher cacao levels, natural flavours, and unusual ingredients. There are no comparing terms between these gourmet treats to the chocolate of supermarket.

Upscale chocolate can cost a small fortune but is well worth the investment. Like the label of a fine wine, the wrapper on an artisanal chocolate tells you exactly what’s inside. And the source of the beans is also noted, for those who like knowing whether their chocolate got its start in Madagascar, Ecuador, Ghana or Peru.

Commenting on the subject, Anthea Gerrie from The Independent said: “Perhaps the best evidence of Britain’s growing love affair with good chocolate is the transformation of Thorntons over the past two years.

“Its current chocolatier, Keith Hurdman, has developed many new flavours for the 600-strong chain, and has refined what it offers to the point where it now fields 24 bars, many of single countries of origin, which have won Taste Awards of the chocolatiers’ equivalent of Oscars from the Chocolate Academy.”

If you are searching for an upscale gift basket that is loaded with chocolate treats, try Thorntons’ Really Love Chocolate Hamper. This fabulous hamper is perfect for any chocolate lover! Crammed full of delicious chocolatey goodies, there is so much chocolate in this box, even the most passionate chocolate lover will have trouble to get through it all, which means of course that there is bound to be some left over for you! The absolute Fathers day chocolates!

Whether you want to send this as corporate promotional gifts, to family member, or the in-laws, it is a perfect choice and will make a wonderful impression. Let someone special open this elegant present.

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Posted By Julie on April 24, 2012

Several things make a normal gift turn into a special one.  The appeal and stand of any gift defines its actual meaning. If one is not able to get the desired gift then changes to a normal gift can be made to make it go with the recipient’s choice. The same idea needs to be applied in the corporate world. People can accept the personalised corporate gifts to be perfect for presenting it to the other similar companies. Gifting in the corporate world is not similar to that of giving a present to a friend. It is a matter of the whole firm and therefore before selecting the gifts various things  are needed to be kept in mind. The business corporate gifts  must be able to create the desired appeal and portray the real motive behind presenting it to the firm. The gifts define the standard and thought behind any company, it is like their representative in front of others and hence are needed to be very trendy and exceptional. For creating the perfect relations with other corporate units, one can seek the help of various business gift UK where anyone can get the required gifts for definite.

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Posted By Julie on April 5, 2012

Some employees and business owners find that creating holiday gifts and office celebration items boosts morale and makes employees and coworkers feel more valued. Vendors and business associates may also find positive value in creating holiday appreciation items for office distribution. When made to celebrate the Easter, an office basket may include a variety of items that convey your best wishes and appreciation.

Baskets can include such things as plush Easter bunnies or chicks, gourmet chocolates and other upscale delicacies. Easter-themed cookies or candies can be used to fill a basket quickly and efficiently. Many stores carry a wide selection of decorated, seasonal treats.

You might also consider filling up baskets with sandwiches, deviled or hardboiled Easter eggs or other lunch fare. Send a list of possible options around to your coworkers or employees to determine the most appealing option.

Arrive early and place baskets on employees’ desks for a day they won’t soon forget. Baskets do not have to be elaborate to show employees their efforts are appreciated and so are they. This is also a great way for a staff member to show co-workers how important they are.

Build an wonderful  Easter basket for the office using any of Thorntons’ quality Easter chocolates that can be iced to your liking.

Thorntons’ collection of fine chocolate Easter eggs and Easter novelties are carefully selected for their high quality ingredients and fantastic flavour. Our Easter chocolates range includes luxury Easter egg gifts, Easter gift hampers, mini Easter eggs, Easter token gifts and Easter chocolate novelties including Easter bunnies and Easter chicks. Order your Easter gift right away!

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Posted By Julie on March 28, 2012

At Hughes Network Systems when employees’ have their yearly anniversary, they are recognized with a monogrammed bar of chocolate as a token of appreciation.

According to Washington Post, “Juanita Fowler has been working at Hughes Network Services since 1980, and she has a collection of chocolate bars to prove it. The most recent piece of milk chocolate, which she received for her 31st year at the company, is in her file cabinet at work.

“People say it’s the best chocolate they’ve ever had. It’s become one of those traditions that you just don’t want to stop,” said Michelle Pearre, assistant vice president of human resources.

The chocolate bars are embossed with the company’s name and delivered in small gold-coloured boxes.

Thorntons’ chocolatiers and corporate team have created a variety of personalised business gifts to make the perfect corporate gift for you to surprise and delight your loyal customers. Their personalised business gift boxes allow you to display your brand logo on the front sleeve of either a continental or classic box of Thorntons chocolates, as well as a number of bespoke chocolate boxes. There’s something to suit any budget, whether you’re looking for the ideal personalised business gift to say thanks to your loyal customers, or wish to send out a branded gift to an external company they can provide you with personalised business gifts to suit every occasion.

Corporate gift hampers can be an affordable way to show your employees that you care. You can purchase hampers for your staff filled with fruits, cheeses or milk chocolate.

Find meaningful chocolate tokens to mark the special occasions in your office!

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Posted By Julie on March 12, 2012

Chocolate is one of life’s great pleasures. Give the chocolate lover in your life a great chocolate spa experience.

As you might have guessed, many of the spa’s treatments feature chocolate and chocolate products. Just a few of these include chocolate soaks, chocolate bean polish, chocolate scented massage, chocolate scrubs, and chocolate wraps. Treat your skin to softness!

As Mother’s Day is approaching, give your mum a gift certificate for a chocolate body scrub at your local day spa. If she is a chocolate lover this delicious spa treatment is sure to please her. Often made with Dead Sea salts and pure cocoa extract, a chocolate scrub is designed to soften the epidermis and stimulate surface oxygenation. Cocoa extract is filled with antioxidants as well as magnesium, an essential mineral in muscle health. Magnesium is a natural muscle relaxant, reducing cramps and softening tense muscles. Plus you are guaranteed to smell like a chocolate bar for at least 24 hours!

 Moreover, offer your mum a weekend to a luxurious resort and spa for an indulgent chocolate spa treatment, including a chocolate body wrap, a chocolate meditation, and a feast of chocolate spa desserts.

 If you can’t afford it, the good thing about this spa treatment is that you can do it at home, too! So enjoy the luxury of a healthy day spa which is edible at the same time!

Looking for Mother’s Day chocolates? Thorntons’ fabulous hamper ‘Really Love Chocolate Hamper’ is perfect for any chocolate lover! Crammed full of delicious chocolate goodies, there is so much chocolate in this box, even the most passionate chocolate will have trouble to get through it all. This is also a perfect corporate gift basket!

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Posted By Julie on February 27, 2012

A promotional plan can have a wide range of objectives such as sales increases, new product acceptance, creation of brand equity, positioning, competitive retaliations, or creation of a corporate image. Promotional products add a personal touch to your marketing event.

Source promotional merchandise from many of the suppliers who provide promotional gift ideas. There are many manufacturers and suppliers all providing high quality, cost effective innovative ideas for business or promotional gifts. Together with a high level of customer service, many of these companies can help you to find the right goods for the right occasion.

Promotional merchandise can be sourced via catalogues and brochures, trade magazines, trade shows or via the internet. There are so many to choose from, and the difficulty will be what items to choose. More and more businesses will source promotional items, not only to act as an advertising aid, but also as gifts either for customers, staff or potential new clients.

Promotional gifts are becoming so much more popular as suppliers and manufacturers are all fighting for business. Not only does it help to advertise your company, but everyone likes something for nothing, and a free promotional gift that arrives with the next order will always go down very well.

Many companies are now starting to source promotional merchandise and give away business gifts. Many prospective customers are now starting to expect this, and will often walk away from a show or exhibition with a goodie bag!

There are plenty of exciting corporate gift ideas for you to choose from so that you can avoid the usual pens, pencils and key chains. Whatever items you pick, all should bear your logo.

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Posted By Julie on February 15, 2012

For employers, picking the best gift to give to employees is a daunting task as it is difficult to keep track of each of their interests and inclinations.  To solve this dilemma quickly, although impersonal, companies give generic cards or chocolates to their employees as gifts.  Recently, employers have seen the light.  They have turned to corporate promotional gifts to present to their employees. The value of these gifts cannot be underestimated as they impress  employees..  When employees feel important, the work improves. Giving corporate promotional gifts is also an effective advertising tool for the company.  These companies can distribute merchandise like key chains, watches, calendars, etc. bearing their logos, contact details and services.

Aside from affordable promotional giveaways, companies also have the option of presenting their employees with extravagant gifts like champagne or corporate wine gifts.  These gifts, especially reserved for executives, convey a distinct recognition and appreciation for significant contributions to the company.  Any employee yearns for luxurious gifts like these.  As such, corporate wine gifts make the best business gifts.

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Posted By Julie on February 1, 2012

In the last few decades the corporate world has witnessed a lot of dynamism as they have seen  some of the most loyal men and women retiring from their services who have helped the company in every possible way to achieve its objectives.  Those who have retired have a sense of satisfaction of achievement and sense of satisfaction with what they have received from the company. In the current employee generation there is a sense of dissatisfaction as they desire and ask for more monetary gains in order to meet their luxury. Considering the very important issue, many corporate houses have come up with a very interesting and remarkable solution of corporate gift ideas. These gifts are considered as the building block in the development of relationships between an employee and the corporate.

Every person in the world feels good when he/she is acknowledged for their work or achievements. These gifts successfully create  a sense of satisfaction by being presented on the special occasion to  show that his/her work is acknowledged and is appreciated. Though small, these gifts do motivate an employee to do their work with greater enthusiasm and with increased efficiency. One the companies who first came up with this solution for a business house, was corporate gifts UK. It is an English company which shares their corporate gifts UK ideas with companies in the UK. A person can also avail these corporate gifts online too.

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