Cocktail Courier offers cocktail kits stocked with all the ingredients necessary to prepare mixologist-designed drink recipes. Optional add-ons include mint julep silver cups or champagne flutes. Each box—which can be delivered to hotels or offices—makes several cocktails, and prices typically range from $5.99 to $7.99 per drink. The packages are available in New York and Chicago and in other states through interstate delivery.
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Chicago-based brand Heritage Bicycles specializes in high-end, handcrafted bikes, as well as gift-worthy biking tools and accessories. The EH Works tool roll, $48, fits under a bike seat and contains 10 pockets and is handy for bike-to-work commuters. Products ship throughout the United States and Canada.
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Home decor and accessories company Coral & Tusk makes passport holders, $60, embroidered with whimsical designs that represent travel destinations or animals. The products can be shipped throughout the United States and Canada.
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The portable Lumio Book Lamp, $190, provides quick and easy access to a reading light while on the go. Available through New York’s Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, the light unfolds from a book of laser-cut wood and measures 6.5 by 8.5 inches. All of the museum’s gifts can be shipped throughout the United States and Canada.
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Recycle Signage as Gift Bags
Sustainability can carry over from one event to another. Intel created 400 messenger bags from large vinyl banners that had been used at a 2010 conference. The bags became giveaways at future Intel events and some were donated to schools, saving 5,500 square feet of material from landfills. "We do re-purpose other signage. The trick is to not date your material," says Lou Cozzo, Intel's corporate event marketing manager.
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A fresh take on the traditional chocolate truffle, San Francisco-based TinyB offers Brazilian brigadeiros as a unique sweet treat. The smooth and creamy confections are preservative- and gluten-free, and are available in flavors like passion fruit, pineapple, cayenne pepper, and Brazilian coffee. Cleanly packaged in a robin’s egg blue box, the sweets range in price from $12 (for four) to $135 (for a three-box tower of 75). Additionally, the premium chocolates are available with branding options for corporate gift giving. The minimum order is 25 gifts, with a two-week lead time, plus additional set-up rates for a branded box sleeve ($175) and a hang tag ($125).
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