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I’m sure that you’ve been in this situation before: you been invited to a housewarming, or a new neighbor moves in across the street and you’d like to welcome them to the neighborhood, but you have no idea what to give.

Wine? What if they don’t drink. Flowers? What if they are allergic. Food? Well, yes, of course, everyone eats!

The solution: a gourmet hamper. It’s the perfect gift because a) you can personalize it to the interests of the recipient or b) if you don’t know what they are interested in, an assortment of gourmet foods is likely to please most anyone.

Hampering Around have hampers already made for any occasion, we can also customise one for you. Pick a theme and run with it: it could be chocolate (chocolates, chocolate chip cookies, cocoa – just watch out for peanuts and other nuts which they may be allergic to), beverages (various types of coffee, tea and biscuits), snacks (cheese, crackers).

Beyond food, you could even put together a spa basket with soaps, scented candles and a loofah for busy Mums or bbq sauce, dry rub, tongs and a spatula for Dads. The possibilities are endless!

A great Fathers Day gift example

Can't find the right male gift, here is one

Expanding Interstate

July 7th, 2011

We have just expanded into South Australia and Western Australia with the gifts and services we offer.  Our aim being to truly provide a national gift basket and gift hamper service, in particular for those client that are located outside cities where access to such gifts is not available ie. smaller regional and rural locations.

Hampering Around has taken this step due to the increased level of enquiry and interest from clients nationally.   This expansion has been done using sales agents and an improved web presence in these states.  As with our presence in NSW and Queenland, we will continue to provide;

  1. A wide range of gifts suitable for all occasions and seasons.  Made to order gifts are our speciality.
  2. Whilst the gifts will be prepared in Melbourne, delivery will be be within a matter of days.
  3. For the larger clients who wish to meet with a representative, this is now available (or as always our customer service team can be contacted on 1300 552 023 or via our new Live Chat facility).

Lastly, for those corporate clients who are thinking about Christmas (yes I know it’s early), now is a great time to talk to about your requirements.

 

 

Working with our partners

June 20th, 2011

We have a competition going with our partner the Lindeman Harvest Club for the month of June.

Hampering Around also recently provided an article on how to make your own gift hamper, gift basket and what you will need to do this.

 

 

As part of our commitment to always improving the customer experience Hampering Around has introduced the following;

A Live Chat feature on our website that will allow our clients to;

  1. Receive instant help from our customer service team, real time.
  2. Allow us to better follow up customer queries by email.
  3. Allow us to better support and service our overseas clients (those outside Australia and our time zone).

This new feature will allow us to work with our clients when choosing a

gift hamper, gift basket, baby gift or food and wine hamper.

It will also allow us to help those clients that wish to customise a gift and need some additional assistance.

For those that have particular delivery requirements, we will also be able to address these as part of the real time live chat facility.

Hampering Around has also further upgraded the security of our payments system and you will now notice on each page (as your going through the purchase process) details of our secure payment gateway are provided so that you know the transaction is secure.

We are currently working on a number of new initiatives, these being only two of them to ensure our clients receive the highest level of customer support.   As additional features are released we will publish them here.

We have just released a special offer today for those requiring end of financial year gifts, go to our email post for more details.  We have also included some new information about new developments within our gift range and other exciting information.