Mother's Day Hamper Gifts

Show your Mum that you love her with a beautiful, personalised Hamper Gift!

Wine and Hamper Gifts has a great new range of gifts that are perfect for Mother's Day... or birthdays, engagements, weddings, births, graduations, Father's Day... in fact any special celebration.

All the gifts can be personalised with a message for that special person, or branded with a corporate logo for marketing campaigns.

For more information, please contact us on 01384 445844 or e-mail sales@wineandhampergifts.co.uk

You can also keep up-to-date with our latest products and gifting ideas, by following our social media channels on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Linked In and Google+

Signs of an Improving Economy

Only a few weeks ago, Wine and Hamper Gifts launched an edited version of its main Christmas brochure, focusing on a selection of 'Best Sellers'.

Mindful of the fact that we've all been through a really tough economic period, the aim of the mini-brochure was to highlight a range of 'best sellers' up to £110.00 in price. However, over the last few weeks, interest has been very high across the entire price range of our wine and hamper gifts offering - a clear indication that we are starting to see an 'improving economy', which is good news for all of us!

DON'T FORGET, you can have your logo included on all of our gifts, either with a gift tag, printed sash, on the lid or with the inclusion of personalised gift cards or compliments slips.

If you would like more information on any of our gifts, or would like us to design a gift specifically for you, your clients or staff, please do not hesitate to contact us on 01384 445844 or e-mail sales@wineandhampergifts.co.uk

Wine and Hamper Gifts Christmas 2013 brochure is ready!

The Wine and Hamper Gifts Christmas 2013 brochure is completed and will be posted out during the first week of September.

If you would like to reserve a copy, please call us on 01384 445844 or e-mail sales@wineandhampergifts.co.uk

If you can't wait for the post to arrive, you can download a PDF version by CLICKING HERE.

This year's selection ranges from gifts that are ideal for saying 'thank you' to hard-working staff, to hampers for those all-important clients - everything in-between.

DON'T FORGET! All of our wine and hamper gift range can be corporate branded in a number of ways, ensuring that clients and staff remember the gift long after the contents have been consumed!

 

The brochure also focuses on 'What We Can Do For You' - we're happy to work with clients on bespoke projects, designing a gift or range of gifts to meet specific requirements.

Call us now on 01384 445844 for more details.

Here's just a taster of some of the new gifts available this year:

For us, Christmas is never that far away!

...Wimbledon might be drawing to a close and temperatures rising, but here at Wine and Hamper Gifts we have very little chance to think of anything else other than Christmas!

Our 2013 festive brochure is well underway, the photos have been taken and the website is being constructed.

So if you’re getting organised early, there will be a preview PDF of the new season’s offerings available at the end of July.

To register for your copy...

...you can phone us on 01384 445844,

...e-mail us at sales@wineandhampergifts.co.uk,

... ‘like’ our Facebook Page and watch-out for the PDF download link,

...or, keep watching this blog and download it from here.

In the meantime, have a great Summer!

A Wine and Hamper Gift Isn't Just For Christmas!

Christmas is over, the New Year is well underway and the dust has settled after our busiest trading period of the year. However, that doesn't mean it's quiet at Porter and Woodman Group - far from it!

We are currently preparing for the Valentine's and Mother's Days gift trade, for which we have a beautiful range of gifts that can be individually personalised with a message for your loved one.

We are also developing a range of seed planter gifts using our rustic crates. Each gift can be individually personalised on the side of the crate. These will include seed and bulb growing crates from our new 'Grow A Gift UK' site, which will be fully launched later this year.

Throughout the year, we also provide a range of gifts for corporate clients that can be printed with their corporate logo and used for special promotions, apology gifts, end of financial year celebration gifts, internet promotions, staff gifts, etc.

On top of all that, we have Easter, Father's Day, Summer promotions and Halloween to prepare for!

It just goes to show that 'A Wine and Hamper Gift isn't just for Christmas!'

If you would like any more information, please call 01384 445844 or e-mail sales@porterandwoodman.co.uk

Packing for Christmas

So now it's the turn of our Warehouse and Packing department...

The next two weeks are crucial at Porter and Woodman as we pick and pack the hampers ready for the Christmas deliveries.

Most of the printed tags, lids, sashes, compliments slips and gift cards are ready to be matched up to their orders by now, although there are still orders coming through, even now!

Our loyal and long-serving Warehouse staff work doubly-hard at this time of year; firstly packing all the gifts, then ensuring that they are matched up with the correct print, personalisation and delivery dockets.

It's hard, but rewarding work and the whole company comes together to help, making it a great atmosphere in the build-up to Christmas - but we won't lie, it's a big relief when we can shut the doors as the last delivery goes out. Then we can really enjoy Christmas!

Quick Reminder!
Final order day for guaranteed Christmas delivery is Friday 7th December - SO PLEASE HURRY!!!!

Visit www.wineandhampergifts.co.uk, e-mail sales@wineandhampergifts.co.uk or call 01384 445844 for more info.

...and now Christmas really gets going!

 ... it's early in November, but Christmas is already underway for Porter and Woodman!

The Sales Office has been working hard processing all of the orders that have been coming in since September and now the Print Services department is converting all the print requests into proofs, then sending finished artwork on approved jobs down to the Print Room.

There's a real buzz about the place, so it feels like Christmas already!

If you haven't placed an order yet, take a look at the Wine and Hamper Gifts website. You can also register for our e-mail news or 'like' our Facebook page - so watch out for special offers on gifts in the coming weeks.

Porter and Woodman - making Christmas special for your clients and staff!

...and now over to the Sales Office

It's now the beginning of October and the Sales Office takes over in our Christmas Story.

The brochure is printed and on prospective clients' desks, marketing has been in place since May, a PDF of the brochure available since July, the website in place 3 months earlier than the previous year, so now it's the turn of the Team in the Sales Office.

You might think that they sit there waiting for October to come, but that's not the case. All through the year, they are processing orders and giving advice to customers on our other businesses - Chalkboards UK, WoodenBox UK and Print Services, so when the Wine and Hamper Gifts orders start coming in, they really have their work cut out!

If you would like to know more about our beautiful range of corporate gifts, please give them a call on 01384 445844.

If you'd like to see just what goes into one of our gifts, we have a great little YouTube clip to show you.

Our corporate branded wine hampers are great as a 'thank you' to customers or staff - after all, it is a Porter and Woodman gift!

New Ways to Brand Hampers with Corporate Logos…

Porter and Woodman are delighted with initial responses to the new way of branding their wicker basket and rustic crate hampers.

The printed 'sashes' are produced in-house by the Print Services department. Customers e-mail in their logos and messages, and 'virtual' proofs are signed off before the sashes are run out on their wide format printer. The sashes are then threaded carefully around the lid of the hamper or the slats of the crate.

The sashes create a very finished 'corporate hamper' that beautifully shows the customers logo and message.

This service is available on a number of hampers which include the Christmas Luxury Hamper, The Festive Fitted Basket and the Season’s Greetings Christmas Crate.

To see the full range visit www.wineandhampergifts.co.uk

Wine and Hamper Gifts' Christmas Website Launches

New hamper website launches

We are all delighted with the look of the new www.wineandhampergifts.co.uk  website which went live at the start of this week.

From plans that were made all the way back in February and photographs that were taken in May we now have a 'Rolls Royce' website that offers a great experience to the Corporate Hamper and Gift buyer.

Bets have been placed in the office on which gift is going to be this year’s top selling Christmas hamper and the consensus is that the 'Season’s Greetings' which uses a very stylish antique wooden crate as the hamper, will be the hands down winner. Priced at just under £44.00 you get an awful lot of gift for your money.

To see the full range visit www.wineandhampergifts.co.uk

Alternatively you can register your interest for the new Christmas brochure which will be available from mid-August onwards. Send your request to sales@porterandwoodman.co.uk

Well that about wraps it up for this Summer!

Although we've been thinking about Christmas since March, we still have to take a break from getting the main brochure ready to have a look at wine and hamper gifts for the Summer.

Wrap It Up! is Porter and Woodman's Summer newsletter, packed with beautiful gifts that can be used in any promotion, internet campaign or as a gift for customers and staff this Summer!

The theme is very much 'The Great Outdoors' with gifts such as:

Beach Party Special - BBQ Bucket

Picnic Garden Party


The Picnic Basket


The Gourmet Delight


Corporate Branded Champagne

We are also able to design bespoke gifts around any ideas you may have. If you'd like to receive the newsletter, please do not hesitate to contact us on 01384 445844, e-mail sales@porterandwoodman.co.uk, or download a PDF copy of the Wrap It Up! by clicking here.

               

The Christmas Story continues with the photography...

...so, the gifts have all be selected and fine-tuned - what next?

By the middle of May, all the gifts are ready to have photography taken. Despite having our own purpose built photography studio, it isn't big enough to house this mammoth task, so the complete range is packed up and transported to a professional photography studio.

Each gift is then photographed as a finished item and laid out with props, with several pics taken at different exposures for each setting. From start to finish, this is a 3 week process, with the photographer spending the last week selecting the right exposure for each gift.

At the beginning of June, the pics arrive in our Print Services Studio to be made ready for the website, social media and the brochure, but that's another part of the story...

 

To see just what goes into one of our beautiful, luxury hampers, why not take a peek at our new YouTube clip...

Now that you can see that a corporate wine and hamper gift isn't just for Christmas, give us a call on 01384 445844 and see what we can do for you for any promotion or staff gift throughout the year.

You can also visit our Print Services department's blog to see how the brochure has developed in the last eleven years...

A Christmas Story - that starts in March!

At Porter and Woodman, our Christmas story starts as far back as March - every year!

Once the dust has settled after the Christmas selling period, we spend some time reviewing which of our wine and hamper gifts sold well and start to develop our range for the next Christmas brochure.

We look at the produce, wines, beers and spirits that will be available another nine months down the line; which packaging might present each hamper in the best way; and develop new corporate branding and personalisation techniques for each gift.

The completed range of new gifts is finally brought together in the 'hamper room' to be reviewed and fine-tuned by the end of April.

The story continues in May when we direct the photography of each gift for the web and the brochure. Watch this space as we follow our own Christmas story throughout the year...

To see just what goes into one of our beautiful, luxury hampers, why not take a peek at our new YouTube clip...


Now that you can see that a corporate wine and hamper gift isn't just for Christmas, give us a call on 01384 445844 and see what we can do for you for any promotion or staff gift throughout the year.


You can also visit our Print Services department's blog to see how the brochure has developed in the last eleven years...

Porter and Woodman Christmas 2011 Brochure Launched

The beginning of September sees the launch of Porter and Woodman's 2011 Christmas Wine and Hamper Gifts brochure.

It's the culmination of work that started in April - designing and bringing gifts together, followed by weeks of product photography, designing of the page layouts and finally going to press.

This year's brochure contains a comprehensive range of gifts that are ideal for saying 'thank you' to clients or staff as we approach the festive period. A PDF version of the brochure as available by clicking here.

The launch of the brochure will be supported by the updated website; e-mail news; blog, Twitter and Facebook updates; as well as the launch of a new Linked In company page.

If you would like any more information about Porter and Woodman's range of corporate wine and hamper gifts, please do not hesitate to contact us on 01384 445844

Early Order 15% Discount

October 1^st is the last day to take advantage of our 15% early order discount.

“The early bird catches the worm” or in this case receives a discount for simply getting their act together and ordering one of our luxury Christmas hampers.

It has been rumoured that the discount might be extended for a few days to allow those late wakers to still take advantage of this fantastic offer.

We’ve already had a great uptake from existing customers, many of whom have been enticed back after taking a break from hampers in the gloom of the 2009 recession.

Early leaders in the favourite gift stakes are the inevitable H01 Christmas Chest (winner for the past four years!), but with some very healthy competition from the Christmas Hat Box (H06) and Christmas Bag for Life (H13).

The website at www.wineandhampergifts.co.uk has recently been updated with all the new gifts and is beginning to look fantastic, though there are still some pages to be uploaded so watch this space.

DON'T FORGET! If you let us know what you think of this year's gift selection and our new brochure by Friday 8th October, you'll be entered into a prize draw to win a hamper worth £100! The winner will be announced on our Facebook, Twitter and Blog pages on Friday 15th October.

Christmas 2010 Brochure - Launch Date

The 2010 Wine and Hamper Gifts brochure is close to going to press.

An Early Call for Christmas
Every year we start putting the Wine and Hamper Gifts brochure together as early as May, deciding on a new, exquisite range of wine and hamper gifts and corporate branding methods. The photography is completed in June and the pages are put together during July by our Print Services department.

In early August, the brochure will be on press and will start to hit customer's desks in early September.

If you can't wait that long, there'll be a PDF version available to download by Friday 6th August - so watch this space for more details.

To reserve your copy of the printed brochure or request an e-mailed PDF version, please do not hesitate to contact us on 01384 445844 or e-mail us on sales@printservicespandw.co.uk