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Corporate Gifts Trending Up

Corporate Gifts to Employees are Up!

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Corporate Gifts is a big and growing business.  According to Advertising Specialty Institute’s 7th annual Corporate Gift Spending Report, spending on corporate gifts is increasing. The report was published at the end of 2015. The upward trend in corporate gifts is attributed to an improving economy following the Great Recession.

ASI results also show that gifts to employees is growing. However, gifts to clients is down slightly. Further, the average amount spent on individual gifts was higher in both categories, but companies spend more on gifts to employees. The need to retain key employees during a robust job market is the reason given for this trend.

Corporate Gifts: Trends to Watch

Other trends identified in the ASI study are as follows:

  1. Gift cards and cash have grown into the leading gifts to employees.
  2. The majority of corporate gifts to employees and clients now feature a company logo.
  3. The primary goal of gifts to customers and prospects is to express appreciation, followed by relationship building.
  4. Fruit baskets, popcorn tins, engraved pens & other personalized items are cited as the best corporate gifts.
  5. Tech & apparel are two categories expected to show strong growth as corporate gifts.

Corporate Gifts: Welcoming a Newborn Baby

While not specifically covered in the ASI study, baby gifts is also seeing growth from businesses. The reason is simple.  A baby gift is an opportunity to build good will with an employee or client in a way few other gifts can. In fact, baby gifts actually touch the entire family making it an excellent investment for businesses.

Silly Phillie® specializes in upscale, made to order baby gifts.  Further, the company’s proximity to Manhattan, where many large firms are headquartered, along with an impressive line of products has made Silly Phillie® a preferred vendor to the corporate gift market.

Rocking Horse Baby Gift by Silly Phillie

Personalized Rocking Horse Baby Gift Set

Moreover, Silly Phillie® has identified the following qualities as being most important to businesses in choosing a corporate gifts vendor:

  1. Superior product quality
  2. Uniqueness of product
  3. Ability to customize and/or personalize
  4. Quick turn around time
  5. Excellent customer service

Cost did not make this list. While cost is a deciding factor in other product categories, not so when it comes to baby gifts.  Product related factors like quality, presentation and uniqueness far out weigh the cost of an item.

I hope you enjoyed reading this piece on corporate gifts. If you have any questions or would like to discuss a corporate gifts program with Silly Phillie®, please contact me by phone (855.885.3900) or email (phyllis@sillyphillie.com). I look forward to hearing from you!

Until next time…

Phyllis Gordon S’Dao

Silly Phillie®

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Unique Baby Gifts Make a Lasting Impression

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The other day a woman named Angelique called to order a baby gift. The gift was for an important  business associate at a large pharmaceutical company.

Angelique emphasized that she wanted a unique baby gift that would make a big impression. She specified that It had to be a Welcome Wagon™ baby gift and it had to also include a Silly Phillie® bathrobe.  More about the bathrobe later.

After several minutes reviewing options together Angelique decided to order a Personalized Deluxe Welcome Wagon Gift for Baby Boy . We agreed to substitute a bathrobe for the normally included bath bag and I offered to personalized the bathrobe at no additional cost.

So far nothing was unusual about the call.  Silly Phillie® excels in making unique baby gifts, owns the trademark on Welcome Wagon™ baby gifts, and routinely customizes baby gifts for customers. With a made to order in Brooklyn business model, customizing baby gifts is one of the things that separates Silly Phillie® from competitiors.

Once the order was finalized Angelique told me an amazing story about how she came about calling Silly Phillie®.  This is her story without embellishment and with her approval to write about it.

Unique Baby Gifts-a Silly Phillie® tradtion

Nine years ago  Angelique gave birth to a set of twins. She and her husband received many baby gifts. The gift they treasured most was a Welcome Wagon™ gift for twins.  And among the many items in the gift set were, you may have guessed it, two adorable bathrobes.

So when Angelique needed a special baby gift the first thing she thought of was that Welcome Wagonâ„¢. But there was a slight problem.  She couldn’t remember the name of the manufacturer. The story gets even more interesting. Angelica remembered that she still had both bathrobes at home. She’s been saving them for sentimental reasons-her kids really loved these robes-and partly because she hopes to hand them down to grandchildren one day.

That night Angelique checked the neck labels and discovered that the bathrobes were made by Silly Phillie®. The next day she google searched our company and found www.sillyphillie.com. To her delight she saw that we still make Welcome Wagon™ Baby Gifts and bathrobes, too.

Stories like this one are fantastic to hear. Throughout our 30 plus years in business we’ve heard countless stories about how one or more of our products touched the life of a baby, child or parent in a very special way. Creating unique baby gifts is our passion at Silly Phillie®. Stories like Angelique’s is our reward.

Richard S’Dao