I have to take my hat off to our dedicated team of web designers (you know who you are), what a fantastic job. After enthusing only a few days ago about the upcoming launch of our new site www.promotional-gifts-co.com pencilled in, somewhat optimistically I thought, for January, we now have a live site featuring almost 10,000 promotional products, business gifts and advertising incentives.

Everything from (and you must check this out!) promotional umberellas http://www.promotional-gifts-co.com/products/Promotional_Products_30_Inch_Umbrellas_74.html

to promo baseball caps http://www.promotional-gifts-co.com/products/Promotional_Products_6_Panel_Caps_87.html

and from advertising pens http://www.promotional-gifts-co.com/products/Promotional_Products_Ballpoints1_59.html

to corporate clocks http://www.promotional-gifts-co.com/products/Promotional_Products_Desk_Clocks_107.html

We’re not finished yet, of course, there’s plenty more where they came from and we’ll be adding more products every week to give you the biggest and best range of promotional products and business gifts anywhere on the web. Not to mention the special features that will make your sourcing experience for promotional products even better.

So, now, if you can’t find what you need on our usual site www.corporate-gifts-co.com, then check out www.promotional-gifts-co.com and that should well and truly fix you up for your promotion or corporate event. And if you still can’t find what you’re looking for (and how likely is that with 10,000 products to choose from!?) then we will scour the earth to find it for you - just pick up the phone and call our dedicated promotional gift sales team on 0845 430 2902.

Today, our team embarked on the design and production of a new website specifically for promotional products. As you will no doubt know (as you’re actually on the site now) our current website www.corporate-gifts-co.com specialises in affordable design-led high end premiums and executive incentives, but we recognise that our standard range is not always appropriate for every corporate event or promotional activity.

Of course, we have years of sourcing expertise and are always delighted to help our customers find exactly the right business gift for their particular promotion, but it is difficult for customers to grasp when our crrent website promotes mainly high quality silver and leather gifts.

The new website www.promotional-gifts-co.com will, therefore, concentrate on offering value solutions, high volume promotional products and giveaways; everything from pens to baseball caps, and umberellas to polo shirts.

What will make us different from all the other general promotional websites out there? Well, as part of the Corporate Gifts Company family, you can be assured that our service and quality will be second to none and our 20 years of experience of delivering promotional solutions on time and to budget will set us apart from the crowd.

Launch will be early January, so, as they say, watch this space. But in the meantime, if you do have any general promotional product enquiries, then call our experienced sales team and we will be able to source the right product for your promotion.

Here at the Corporate Gifts Co we are always working to develop and expand our product range, and despite all the economic doom and gloom, we are striving forward with some really exciting new promotional product ideas for 2009. After all, promotional activity is essential to drive your company forward, whatever the economic outlook, and when it’s this bad, you need new and cool incentives and premiums to drive new sales.

So what are we working on?

Well, we are developing a range of eco-friendly, ethically sourced awards which will be available in standard models “off the shelf” and also bespoke options using our free design service.

My favourite is a new innovative range of promotional aluminium folders and office accessories manufactured in the UK. Again, these will be available off the shelf and as special bespoke orders. These will be great for promotion of documents and product launches and, well, the list is endless.

More Sterling Silver; our current range of sterling silver promotional items is proving so popular we are working hard on significantly expanding the range.

That’s just a small selection of the new promotional incentives we’ll be launching next year. Some are already available so if you’re particularly interested in any of the above, give our promotions sales team a call. As they say, watch this space!

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

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 calculator - so they can work out how much money this had cost them http://www.corporate-gifts-co.com/acatalog/corporate_gifts_stellar_calculator.html

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!!!

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.

Christmas is all about gifts; giving and receiving. And this is no different in the corporate world. Promotional activity quadruples during the run up to Christmas and incentives and business gifts become even more like presents under the tree. It is important, therefore, that we can offer our customers packaging upgrades to reflect the season and create the most appropriate presentation for your premiums this yuletide. So this week we have launched a veritable potpourri of packaging options to help get you in the festive mood.
See http://www.corporate-gifts-co.com/acatalog/bespoke_options.html

Ribbon; a beautifully tied ribbon to finish off your promotional gift is the perfect way of communicating to your staff or customers that you really value them. Our stylish black satin ribbon is a superb addition to our bespoke packaging options. Other colours and printed ribbon is available as a special order.
Giftwrap; for that extra special presentation, our promotional gifts are available in this stunning silver gift wrap finished with a silver bow - especially perfect for Christmas gifts or premiums to staff or customers. Other colours and combinations are available as a special order.
Gift Tag; when you need a personalised message, The Corporate Gifts Co can offer a gift tag printed with your promotional message. These can even be personalised with the recipients name or details and we can incorporate your logo as well as text.

Gift Bag; perfect as either an alternative to our other gift wrap options or as an effective addition to really put the finishing touch to your promotion. Our gift bags are available in sumptuous matt black and come in various sizes to fit your gift perfectly. Other colours and printed options are available.

Our sales team can help with advice and more information.

The Corporate Gifts Companies new look!

The corporate gifts company has been working hard over the last week to re-brand and re-boost our promotional gifts website.  We have created a new promotional gifts look on both of our gift blogs. We believe the new look allows our company to have a better presence and also create a new and more modern feel to our blogs and how readers can view and read up on the latest times about promotional gifts.

We have now worked hard on both of our blog designs to allow users to have the feel of a high end and trust worthy promotional gifts company both of our blogs can be viewed below.

The Promotional Gifts Blog

The Corporate Gifts Company Office Blog

Please feel free to leave us some advice and tips on how we can improve our blogs and website even more and we will do our very best to make sure we improve our services to give the customer the best user experience.

Training our staff to meet your needs!

The corporate gifts company has always worked hard to make sure we have the very best sales and web design team to meet all of our criteria and alloy you the customer to have the very best user experience when you use us for sourcing and buying your promotional gifts.

We have decided that although we already have a great sales team it might be time to send them on some more teaching sessions so we can offer our customers more than 100% customer service when they are looking for promotional gifts.

If you feel we could improve our service even more then let us know and we will do everything we can to make sure the improvement is made within the corporate gifts company.

Boosting our Visibility

We our working hard on new and exciting ways to help people get a better view of how much work we are doing to make sure you have the very best promotional gifts for your corporate event or promotion.

This is why we have now created various new ways for our company to reach out and target and get the very best customers within the market who could be looking for promotional gifts or business items.

Below is a clear list of various ways you can contact us and also view our promotional gifts range.

•    The Corporate Gifts Co Facebook Page

•    Promotional Gifts Co on Myspace

•    The Promotional Gifts Range on FLCKR

•    The Good Web Guide

•    4 Networking

•    Stumble Upon

•    Our Promotional Gifts RSS Feed

•    Track our Progress on Alexa

•    Visit us and Digg us

We believe that making more ways to get our brand known will allow your company to find that special promotional gift with ease and stand out better than ever.

Feel free to have a look around our promotional gifts website for any gift your company could be looking for to promote with.