Most corporate gifting is forgettable on purpose. A generic hamper. A branded pen. A bottle that gets re-gifted by Thursday. The problem is rarely budget; the gift just says nothing about who sent it.
We build our gift boxes around things made in Christchurch and Canterbury, by people we can name.
The three boxes
The Grand Tea Ritual is the substantial one. A full tin of organic New Zealand-grown Zealong tea, a hand-carved sea green ceramic mug thrown by Curios in Woolston, a curated selection of our baked goods, a canvas tote, and a token redeemable in store for any drink up to $15.
The Artisan Tasting Box is the same idea smaller, built around a Curios tasting tumbler and a single serve of Zealong.
The Sweet Treats Box strips out the keepsakes and doubles the food: two of everything, right for an office or a dinner party and not for one person.
What is actually in them
The food is ours, made in the studio. Honey Cake, spiced, layered with dulce de leche and dipped in dark chocolate, so the shell cracks before the middle gives. Brownie Bites, flourless, dense enough to go claggy on the tongue. Filled Bon-Bons with a shell that snaps, and guava biscuits, buttery, the jam inside still sticky. Any one of them sells on its own from our sweet treats range.
The ceramics are the part people keep: Curios throw them in Woolston, each one slightly different, faintly uneven under the thumb. Buy the mug or tumbler from our ceramics collection. The tea comes from Zealong in the Waikato, the only commercial tea estate in New Zealand, and more on our partners page.
Why a keepsake matters in a corporate gift
Food gets eaten and forgotten inside a week, but a handmade mug sits on a desk for years, warm in both hands at nine each morning. Every time someone lifts it they remember where it came from. Better return than a fruit basket, for roughly the same spend.
Larger orders and end-of-year
For volume, talk to us early: client gifts, staff recognition and conference bags, not in the last week of the year, and our corporate gifting page covers the options. Need catering instead of boxes? Our event catering and wholesale pages are the starting points.
When you genuinely do not know what they like
A gift card is not a cop-out when the alternative is guessing badly. It buys an experience instead of a box: a class, or our Full High Tea Experience, and both are better with someone else there.
Picking them up
Order boxes online for collection from our patisserie inside The Welder on Welles Street. Allow two days through the date picker at checkout. Pickup only, no delivery and no courier. Open 10am to 9pm Tuesday to Saturday. See the full range on our gifts and vouchers page, or contact us for anything larger.
