It's all go in the Print Department

With the print order deadline just gone by and Christmas only a few weeks away, the Print Department is flat out printing all the corporate branding and personalisation for this year's gifts.

In fact, our screen-print department has been busy since the end of September with print for Christmas, but in the next few weeks more print will go through than at any other time of year.

If you haven't ordered yet, we can still take orders for unprinted Wine and Hamper Gifts until Tuesday 4th December - SO PLEASE HURRY!!!

Call us on 01384 445844 or visit www.wineandhampergifts.co.uk for more details.

...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!

The Christmas Story continues with the printed brochures...

... and so, after all the checking and double-checking is done, the Wine and Hamper Gifts Christmas brochure finally goes to print towards the end of July.

Whilst at the printers, it is checked on press by Mark Denison, our Print Services Director. He makes sure that the colour is correct on each page and that the print matches the signed off proofs.

By the middle of August, the brochure is delivered to our Stourbridge works, where it is checked again before mailing out at the beginning of September.

If you can't wait that long, you can download a PDF version by clicking here, or you can call us on 01384 445844 or e-mail sales@porterandwoodman.co.uk to make sure that you receive your copy.

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...

Christmas comes early for Local MP at Porter and Woodman

We were delighted to host our local Westminster MP, Margot James earlier this week.

Margot was keen to meet the company and learn how we are bucking the general economic gloom. She was impressed that we had recently taken on our 6^th new employee of the year, taking the total number of staff up to 40.

Margot spent time looking at wooden packaging that was being made for delivery into Jamie Oliver’s delis and Christmas Gifts that were destined for the John Lewis Group.

She also visited our hamper showroom where she saw much of this year’s Christmas hamper range.

The full range is now available to see online at www.wineandhampergifts.co.uk or a brochure can be requested by ringing 01384 445844.

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