As ever, do not make assumptions about anyone's dietary needs or allergens. Choose the hamper and point the recipient to the information on each product if they ask. For those who care where the chocolate gift delivery comes from, the cocoa is sourced through Cocoa Horizons and the company is a member of Origin Green, with production held to BRC Grade A+ standard.
A closing practical note: do not make assumptions about dietary needs or allergens on someone's behalf, even a partner's; the product information covers it. And for those who like to know the background, the cocoa is sourced through Cocoa Horizons and the company is a member of Origin Green, with production held to BRC Grade A+ standard.
A practical note for a mixed office: do not try to speak for anyone's dietary needs or allergens. Point colleagues to the information on each product and let them make their own call. For those who ask where the chocolate comes from, the cocoa is sourced through Cocoa Horizons and the company is a member of Origin Green, with production held to BRC Grade A+ standard.
Provenance matters here as much as it does at any other point in the year. A collection that is genuinely hand-finished, using single-origin cocoa and produced by a maker with a long-standing story, carries more weight as a gesture than a generic box picked up because January happened to roll round. Lily O'Brien's traces its own story back to Mary Ann O'Brien's kitchen in Co. Kildare in 1992, and that kind of provenance is worth choosing on purpose rather than settling for whatever happens to be nearest to hand.
For Secret Santa, individually wrapped chocolates hit the brief without the guesswork. They read as considered rather than grabbed from a garage on the way in, they suit almost anyone, and they sit comfortably inside a modest budget. A small boxed selection of hand-finished pralines does more for a colleague than another novelty mug.
January does not have an obvious gifting occasion built into it the way November and December do, which is exactly why it gets overlooked as a moment to say thank you for the year that has just finished. A New Year thank you gift, sent to a client, a colleague, or simply someone who helped out over the previous twelve months, works well precisely because it is not expected, and does not carry the pressure or competition that surrounds Christmas gifting.
A closing practical note: do not make assumptions about dietary needs or allergens on someone's behalf, even a partner's; the product information covers it. And for those who like to know the background, the cocoa is sourced through Cocoa Horizons and the company is a member of Origin Green, with production held to BRC Grade A+ standard.
A practical note for a mixed office: do not try to speak for anyone's dietary needs or allergens. Point colleagues to the information on each product and let them make their own call. For those who ask where the chocolate comes from, the cocoa is sourced through Cocoa Horizons and the company is a member of Origin Green, with production held to BRC Grade A+ standard.
Provenance matters here as much as it does at any other point in the year. A collection that is genuinely hand-finished, using single-origin cocoa and produced by a maker with a long-standing story, carries more weight as a gesture than a generic box picked up because January happened to roll round. Lily O'Brien's traces its own story back to Mary Ann O'Brien's kitchen in Co. Kildare in 1992, and that kind of provenance is worth choosing on purpose rather than settling for whatever happens to be nearest to hand.
For Secret Santa, individually wrapped chocolates hit the brief without the guesswork. They read as considered rather than grabbed from a garage on the way in, they suit almost anyone, and they sit comfortably inside a modest budget. A small boxed selection of hand-finished pralines does more for a colleague than another novelty mug.
January does not have an obvious gifting occasion built into it the way November and December do, which is exactly why it gets overlooked as a moment to say thank you for the year that has just finished. A New Year thank you gift, sent to a client, a colleague, or simply someone who helped out over the previous twelve months, works well precisely because it is not expected, and does not carry the pressure or competition that surrounds Christmas gifting.