One way to differentiate your brand from competitors in 2025 is to offer a New Years business gift. Whilst many will have sent their business connections a gift to celebrate the festive holidays, by sending something at the start of the year, when your customers least expect it, you are likely to set yourself apart from the crowd.
After the indulgences of Christmas, the start of the year brings about a re-energised and fresh outlook for the year ahead. If you are like the other estimated 40 million people in the UK, you will have made a New Year’s resolutions this year.
A great way to embrace this positive feeling for the future is by giving your customers a promotional gift with your contact details on. It will plant the idea of accomplishing business together going forward. Similarly, if you want to help with team morale, an employee gift will help to portray your appreciation for their efforts. Or browse all corporate gifts.
What is a good New Year corporate gift?
A useful and reusable item will be much more likely to stay with your customer or employee, and create a long lasting impression of your brand. Also, with resolutions being popular at the start of the year, items that can help the receiver stick to them, are bound to be gratefully accepted.
Healthy eating, mental and physical wellbeing and learning a new skill are all common New Year resolutions. Being more organised, keeping safe, and helping to protect the environment are also popular goals. With these in mind, we have compiled our top 7 branded gift ideas to show your appreciation at the start of the year.
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Our Top Gift Ideas For The New Year
1. Healthy Eating
Lunch Bags
It is very easy to buy your lunch out, to nip down to the local burger joint or chippy! Whilst we all like to indulge once in a while, many will be trying to resist the temptation. By providing a branded lunch cooler bag, you can encourage your team/customers to prepare their own healthy lunch. The bag will keep it cool and fresh, ready to enjoy at lunch whether in the workplace or out for a picnic if the weather allows!
See all our Lunch Bags and Boxes here.
Spaghetti Measurer
How often have you cooked spaghetti and made too much, but eaten it anyway?! We all do it. But not anymore! With this handy spaghetti measurer, you can make sure there is just the right portion size for one, two or three people. Made in the UK from 100% recycled plastic and you can have you logo printed in full colour to make sure your brand sticks in the receivers mind.
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2. Staying Hydrated
Water Bottles
Snacking on biscuits, crisps and sweets is a tricky habit to beat. One way to help reduce snacking is by drinking more water. Keeping hydrated is another popular resolution for many. So why not gift a branded drinks bottle?
There are hundreds of promotional water bottles to choose from including this above glass bottle with Bamboo lid and Silicone coating grip. It’s ideal for cool water and can be printed with your branding, and you can even add an individual’s name. We can also supply drinking bottles with indicators of how much water you have drunk, helping to keep you motivated throughout the day.
See all our Branded Water Bottles Here.
3. Mental Wellbeing
Looking after our mental wellbeing is an area most businesses are keen to address. Many of the ideas we cover in this blog will help with mental wellbeing, like healthy eating, exercise, being organised and staying safe. We also have written a blog about Wellbeing and Mental Health for further reading.
Here are a couple of specific product ideas that can help to promote a healthy mental wellbeing marketing message:
Audio Items
Music is a great healer. Listening to your favourite tunes can help you relax and switch off. A wireless speaker, or set of ear buds with your company branding on does not only have a high perceived value, but is very likely to be used! Choose a sustainable material for your promotional audio items and you are ticking the eco-friendly box too.
See all our Promotional Audio Items Here.
Fidget Toys
Branded fidget and stress toys are a low cost and popular way to relieve stress. Stress toys can keep the mind and body relaxed, and help to aid concentration. Whether you opt for a highlighter fidget spinner (which doubles up as highlighter pens), fidget cube, bubble poppers or the more traditional stress toy, these items will help to convey your companies dedication to health.
4. Physical Wellbeing
Every year, getting fit or doing more exercise is up there for the most popular New Year’s resolution. Giving your customers and staff a branded item that makes it easier to exercise, or an incentivises them to reach their goals is a good bet. From branded sweatshirts, sports tops and sports caps to footballs, tennis balls, skipping ropes, yoga mats and golf sets, there is a wide range of fitness related promotional gifts that can be selected.
Here are a few you may not have thought of:
Resistant Bands
With three levels of thickness, these sports bands help you to build up your strength gradually, with exercises that condition the whole body. You could even create your own exercise plan or challenge to go alongside them to further encourage exercise. Add your logo to the top of the box to make sure you are in the users mind each time they reach for them.
Gym Towels
A useful item for anyone who works out, whether it be in the gym, at a sports club or at the swimming pool. What’s great about promotional towels is you have a huge printing area to convey your brand message. Available in a number of sizes, from full size to compact face towels.
Sports Bags
A nice new sports bag is always a good incentive to get to the gym or sports hall. We have loads of options depending on your budget, the size of the bag and your brand image. We like this recycled cotton drawstring bag – it is lightweight, has an eco look to it and is made from 150gsm recycled cotton and is available in 4 subtle shades.
See all our Branded Sports Bags Here.
5. Being Organised
Piggy Bank
Every little penny counts! You may have seen the countless stories of people saving a penny or a pound a day throughout the year in order to save a lump sum at the end of the year. Well a fun way to promote saving, is with these cute promotional piggy banks. Have your logo printed up to six colours on each side.
Get in touch for visuals and prices.
Stationery
Planning your finances and getting organised for the year is always more appealing when you have new stationery to do it with. The classic organisation promotional gifts such as diaries, calendars, notebooks, pens and flag sets will all be useful and handy items ensuring your brand is seen all year round. We particularly like the above recycled mole notebook, with its soft touch styling and quality print options.
See all our Promotional Stationery Here.
6. Protecting the Environment
Following the likes of David Attenborough’s Green Planet, The Earthshot Prize and COP29; protecting the environment is high on a lot of peoples agendas. Whether you are embarking on a month of Veganism, wanting to reduce throwaway purchases and buy more sustainable, we have just the items for you!
Reusable Bags
They have been around for a long time, but are still one of the most selected promotional gifts. That’s because they are always useful! Plus with the addition of environmental concerns and carrier bag charges, it’s a no brainer. There are now masses of choice when it comes to reusable bags – and most are made of sustainable or recycled materials.
View our eco-friendly bags here.
Promotional Seeds and Plants
As well as helping our mental health, planting seeds and plants is good for the planet; releasing oxygen and absorbing carbon dioxide. Excitingly we can now offer a whole host of promotional products that include seeds – like the above promotional seeds packs, notepads with seeded paper and even pencils with seeds in the tip.
If you are interested in more ideas, check out our Promotional Seeds and Plants blog.
7. Learning a New Skill
Taking up a hobby, learning a new skill or taking up a challenge are also popular New Year’s resolutions. It could be learning to drive, how to play an instrument or learning to draw. Here are a couple of more novel items that you may not have considered!
Juggling Balls
Challenge your team or customers to learn how to juggle with these promotional juggling balls! Printed with your logo and supplied in a silver pouch, these colourful juggling balls could create some fantastic relationship bonding moments, as well as providing some social media gold content!
Get in touch for visuals and prices.
Rubiks Cube
Have you ever solved a Rubik’s Cube? No? This could be your year to learn! If you can, maybe challenge yourself to a quicker time?! Another fun challenge for your customers or colleagues.
There it is. 7 Corporate Gift Ideas for the New Year! Steel City Marketing are experts in sourcing the perfect corporate gift solution to make your brand stand out. If you would like any further information on any of the above products, or help with ideas, please get in touch to discuss.
Please note this blog has been updated from the original post (Jan 2025).
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