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Planning Christmas gifts for employees, holiday gifts for clients, or small business Christmas gifts for customers can be time-consuming and stressful. But a little effort goes a long way in demonstrating how much you value these groups. Rather than cookie-cutter, the following Arkansas-based options will come across as meaningful offerings to help you recognize, thank and appreciate everyone who helped make your year successful.
Curated Gift Boxes
The Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts
The Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts Museum Store offers discounted bulk ordering and customization on many items, perfect for businesses looking to impress clients or thank employees. With access to a variety of artists and vendors, the Museum Store can help you find the perfect gift with your style and budget in mind. Suggestions include insulated stainless-steel bottles featuring an engraved map of Little Rock, along with coordinates, or candles from Sunwall Trading Co. The latter are made in Arkansas with premium ingredients and are available in six fragrances and two sizes.
Contact the store at 501-396-0357 for more details or to schedule a complimentary consultation.
City Supply
This holiday season, Fayetteville’s City Supply transforms into Santa’s workshop with their corporate gifting service. They specialize in curating unique, thoughtful gifts that are sure to impress — ranging from local treasures to delicious treats. The team is dedicated to providing custom gift boxes tailored for every occasion, budget and business size.
Each of their gift boxes is fully customizable, and they are happy to include personalized messages or branded inserts to make your gifts even more special.
If you miss the deadline this season, you can still select from their curated collections, which include Arkansas Razorbacks, Arkansas makers, Fayetteville Farmer’s Market and Fayetteville Arkansas. The Arkansas Makers collection includes coffee from Arsaga’s Coffee Roasters and Onyx Coffee Lab, salsa from Don-E-G’s, tea towels from Moody Brown, barbecue sauces from Wright’s Barbecue, jams and jellies from House of Webster, breakfast and soup mixes from War Eagle Mill, outdoor accessories from Mollyjogger, simple syrups from Pink House Alchemy, honey from Guenther Apiary, candles from Lost & Found Collective, keepsake journals from Duncan & Stone, and many more.
Creative Custom Food Gifts
Food gifts make creative — and tasty — Christmas gifts for clients and staff. In an effort to be more sustainable, many recipients also prefer such consumable gifts. Choose from smaller individual holiday gifts for coworkers, or more lavish group gifts for Christmas that everyone on site can enjoy together.
The Savory Pantry of Hot Springs
The Savory Pantry of Hot Springs has already done the work of curating Arkansas-themed packages that are ideal for corporate gifts. They are packaged in a natural jute tote and tied with a red bow and easily shipped. The Savory Pantry refers to themselves as “your gourmet concierge, standing by to create tasty, memorable food gifts for anyone and everyone on your list — including you! No order or budget too big or too small.”
The Arkansas Traveler features Mountain Valley Spring water, J&M Foods aged cheddar cheese straws and Lambrecht Gourmet sweet and spicy glazed pecans and Southern pecan toffee.
The Natural State Chocolate gift includes J&M Foods chocolate chip cookies, Lambrecht Gourmet Southern pecan toffee and Markham & Fitz sea salt caramels, chocolate bars and drinking chocolate.
Call 877-426-4887 for more details.
Wild Sweet William’s
Customize a box of central Arkansas’ favorite pastries or let them curate a box of their most popular items, a savory sampler, kolache sampler, scone sampler, or cookie sampler. They also offer a box of gluten-avoidant items.
Zelli Pasta
Springdale-based Zelli Pasta also offers corporate gift boxes for shipping or local pickup. With themes including pasta night, spicy pasta night and charcuterie night, you’re sure to find something to make everyone on your corporate gift list feel appreciated.
Onyx Coffee Lab
Although it’s based in Northwest Arkansas, Onyx Coffee Lab’s appeal is truly global. The gift boxes themselves are works of art, so you don’t even have to wrap the roaster sample, collection, catalog or blend boxes that include various sized bags of their most popular offerings.
They are packed in a fold out gift box full of brewing advice and artwork.
Wicked Mix
This Little Rock-based gourmet snack mix brand will help you show your clients and customers how much you value them. All their gift offerings can be drop shipped, and they do all the work. You send them your mailing list, and they will include a standard holiday greeting, or you can provide your own cards.
Call 501-374-2244 for more information.
Responsible Corporate Gifts
What better Christmas gift than one to charity?
Heifer International, headquartered in Little Rock, is famous for its fundraising model that allows donors to determine how their money will be spent. Heifer publishes “The Most Important Gift Catalog in the World,” with options like a flock of chicks, goat, honeybees or send a girl to school. For $20, a starter flock of 10-50 chicks will grow to provide nutritious eggs to a struggling family, as well as income through selling extra eggs. For $275, the send a girl to school gift provides a family with training and livestock so they can earn the income needed to send their daughter to school.
When you donate a gift in honor of someone, they help you create a free card after your donation is complete. It’s a great way to let your clients, customers or employees know about the impact of the gift you made in their name.
Christmas Ornaments
Christmas ornaments make popular holiday gifts for employees and customers. While you could print your company logo on a custom ornament, why not go with a one-of-a-kind ornament that will remind recipients of your good taste and thoughtfulness?
Well-known throughout Arkansas and the Southeast, James Hayes of Pine Bluff has been creating art glass since 1988. Christmas glass remains a big part of his body of work, and his most popular item for Christmas is the ornament. Other figurines in the Christmas glass collection include trees, Santa, snowman, reindeer, Santa rubber duck and Christmas angels.
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