The hamper business does seem to have been getting rather stale of late - so it’s quite nice to hear about someone challenging the market.
That’s what Nicki Stewart has attempted do with her Diverse Hampers. After diversifying out of stationery Nicki decided to offer offer a fresh, high quality and stylish alternative to the traditional wicker basket filled with cheeses and ham. The company provides a collection of striking gifts in towers of boxes containing products from small, artisan producers in the UK. As a result Businesszone.co.uk awarded her the top spot in their new business award.
Our particular favourite is this delightful organic gift hamper.
Panelists judging the new business finalists at the presentation stage were Jonny Allatt, investment director at Zeus Private Equity, Modwenna Rees-Mogg, editor of Angel News, Samantha Fountain, founder of Shewee and Ben Heald, CEO at Sift.
Nicki adds: “Far from being accomplished in the art of presenting, I entered the competition with apprehension! However, I found the process of presenting to such an important audience an invaluable experience.”
With schools about to break up for the school holidays, it’s worth considering one of these Leavers’ Books for the nippers.
From personal experience, I know that I treasure my university leavers book - if only to have a laugh at my slightly odd dress sense in those days....
This particular Leavers’ Book has plenty of A6 pages to fill with the creative genius and profound jottings that only school leavers can excel in! There’s room even for teachers’ notes as well as photos and the time honoured questionnaires “Most likely to be… (prime minister/rockstar et al).
Available from 2littleboys.
I recently ran out of juice for my ipod in a remote location and wondered how this predicament might be averted in future.
Low and behold a solution might have presented itself. This solar powered charger for mp3 players, mobile phones, digital cameras, GPS and other handheld devices offers enough charge to put the zip back into your gadget.
It offers the assurance of “Plugging into the sun or the wall and charge gadgets anywhere anytime”. Umm can it really be that simple?
Anyway this intriguing device known as a “hybrid charger” holds enough power to charge a mobile phone twice or provide you with 20 hours of music on your iPod.
Named the Solio Classic, it is a one stop charging solution and possibly a pretty handy tool for travel, emergency situations or those who spend extended periods of time on the go.
Posted by Tom Wilkins on Fri 27th June 2008 at 06:00 AM, Filed in Experiences
Quite frankly there can be no greater gift to a petrol head than a luxury visit to the British Grand Prix. Not sure who or what companies offer a days package, but whoever does will need to incorporate a face to face with this years gorgeous front girl of the British Grand Prix - Gemma Garrett.
To see what I mean take a look at these rather tidy promotional photos:
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We’re lucky to have secured a fascinating interview with CEO Eileen Gittins of Blurb the online book publishing company - which we reviewed earlier this month.
Hope you enjoy it.
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