Sustainable Christmas gifts 2024 2025
Do you already have an appropriate Christmas gift for the holidays?
A notable trend in the world of end-of-year gifts is the growing need for personalization and engagement. Companies are discovering that combining a sustainable product with a gift card is not only original, but also highly appreciated by employees. This type of gift offers the best of both worlds: a tangible, responsible gift that reflects the company's values, and the flexibility for the recipient to choose something to their liking. This approach compares favorably with the traditional gift card, which, while practical, can sometimes be perceived as impersonal and boring. By combining a sustainable item, such as a reusable water bottle, eco-friendly office supplies, or a biodegradable phone case, with a gift card, you increase engagement and satisfaction. The recipient not only receives an environmentally conscious gift, but also has the opportunity to select their own gift.
Giving a Christmas package or Christmas gift has been a tradition for years. A Christmas package or Christmas gift allows you to wish your employees or customers a Merry Christmas. In addition, it is a token of appreciation to the people around you. Due to the wide range of Christmas gifts on offer, it can be quite difficult to find a suitable Christmas gift. Therefore, in this blog, we give you four tips for an appropriate Christmas gift Did you know that you can also use the WKR's relaxation to purchase your Christmas gifts inexpensively?
What can you use a Christmas gift for?
Christmas gifts come in all sorts of shapes and sizes and can be used for different purposes. In the industry, for example, we see that Christmas gifts are not only given to employees but also to clients, business contacts, third parties or volunteers.
Promotional gift/Christmas gift
More and more companies are giving Christmas gifts to business associates during the holidays. Christmas gifts are given to business associates to strengthen mutual ties. In addition, giving a Christmas gift is a nice informal contact moment where personal attention is central. The fact that something is done at all about giving a gift as a token of appreciation is good for the relationship between employee and employer or between client and employer. This increases the likelihood that a customer will come back to your company the next time they place an order.
Staff Gift
In times when it is difficult to find staff who are willing to give 100% for your company or organization, it is important to keep your staff happy. To see what the needs of your employees are, it is good to look at the insentric and the exentric motivations. These are physical (such as salary, a bonus, or a Christmas gift) and mental motivation factors (such as responsibility or appreciation) why an employee performs work for an employer. In fact, research has shown that unhappy employees in the U.S. wasted $550 billion in lost productivity because motivation was lost. The holiday season is the perfect time to put your staff in the limelight with an appropriate business gift, for example.
Christmas gift for volunteers
In addition to gifts for employees, the holidays are a good time to put your volunteers in the spotlight. You can also do this with a personalized Christmas gift. Think, for example, of a nice package or a Christmas gift with a message.
Tax-free ordering of Christmas gifts through the WKR
Under the WKR (work-related costs scheme) employers can give tax-free reimbursements to employees in the form of, for example, a Christmas present, a home-working package or a business gift. If this takes place within the free space of the WKR, they do not have to pay pay income tax on this. As of 1 January 2020 the Work-related Costs Regulation has been temporarily expanded. This initiative was started by PPP. The percentage of the wage bill that can be spent has been increased from 1.7% to no less than 3% (up to a wage bill of € 400,000). This provides a benefit especially for SMEs. The government has earmarked 200 million for this increase. A nice gesture in Corona time to spend on a suitable Christmas gift.
4 tips for an appropriate Christmas gift
Tip 1. Original Christmas gift
Even though the tradition of Christmas gifts started with food packages, today you see many variations with other products. By going for another original Christmas gift, you surprise your employees with a gift that will last beyond the holidays. For example, this year go for a Retulp Urban or Tumbler as a replacement for the plastic varieties.
Tip #2. Sustainable Christmas gift
Today we live in a society where single-use is valued less and less. In addition to helping with climate goals, a sustainable Christmas gift is a strategic product for marketing within your company. Research has shown that sustainable business gifts or Christmas gifts ensure a high customer appreciation and a noticeable boost within the company. The story behind a gift is especially important here.
Tip #3. Christmas gift with a personal touch
Paying attention to your staff or associates always pays off. So why not reflect this in Christmas gifts? For example, go for a gift with your own logo, name or both. Did you know that at Retulp it is also possible to have the names of your employees individually engraved in our products? This shows that the gift is really meant for that specific person.
Tip #4. Useful Christmas gift
Do you recognize that you have received a gift that you were not happy with or never did anything with again? This is a great pity. After all, you want to leave a good impression with your Christmas gift. Therefore, go for a product that is useful or functional for the recipient. Are your employees on the road a lot? Then choose a Tumbler for example, so that your employees can still have a nice cup of coffee or tea anywhere they go.
Why a Retulp Christmas gift
Not only for yourself, but also for another and the planet
With a Retulp Christmas gift, you not only have a beautiful product in your hands. Because when you buy a water bottle or thermos cup, with every bottle you donate 1000 times its content in liters of water to developing countries. This way you ensure that somewhere in the world someone drinks with you. Do you prefer a lunch product? Then you make sure that for every item a tree is planted. In addition, you ensure that fewer single-use products are used and less ends up in nature.
Sustainable
Retulp products are made from sustainable materials. All materials are carefully selected for usability, emissions and longevity. All products consist of stainless steel, Bamboo fiber or Bioplastic (extracted from sugar cane), therefore have a long life and do not emit flavors from the material.
Always usable, summer or winter
Retulp products are suitable for any time. For example, in summer you can use the Tumbler thermos cups to keep your cold drinks cool for up to 12 hours. In the winter, take your thermos with your favorite hot drink anywhere and the contents will stay hot for up to 8 hours.
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Three reasons for beautiful sustainable bottles with your own logo and a good story:
- Good for yourself, good for another and good for the planet;
- Sharp all-in prices without unexpected additional costs with digital proof in advance;
- Fast delivery time of 8 to 10 business days and easy ordering in 3 steps. Design your own bottle here with our configurator. Choose a bottle and then click "design your own...
