Monthly Archive for "September 2010"



Hamper Blog alex.walker on 22 Sep 2010

Personalisation, Photos and Sweets!

Have you checked out our new sister website at yourhamper.com? As you may have gathered from previous posts, this new service allows you customise and personalise your hamper with a design and image. Well, we have been open for just over a week now, and have been personalising all manner of gifts. Birthdays and Congratulations have been the most popular occasions, but a lot of people have been making use of the photo upload facility to really personalise the gift.

Back here at Virginiahayward.com we have a full selection of Christmas hampers and gifts as well as our all year round range (if you do not quite fancy mince pies this early in the year!). Not surprisingly, what with a large number of students starting university, we have seen a large increase in the number of sweet gifts such as our Tear and Share hamper. A great way to make friends in those first few weeks!

Hamper Blog alex.walker on 13 Sep 2010

Yourhamper.com – New Site Launches

Yourhamper.com launches today, specialising in the production and delivery of personalised gift hampers, whilst offering an unprecedented choice of product selection and packaging.

With 26 years of hamper packing experience and armed with feedback from their loyal and extensive customer base, hamper producer Virginia Hayward Ltd has provided a website that allows customers to choose their own packaging and contents. However, not satisfied that a unique gift for every customer had taken the development far enough, the company has marched ahead of the competition with a bright and bold website allowing the customer to personalise the packaging with their own photos, select from over 100 designs and add a message. Director Sam Hayward described the new website as “a similar concept to Moonpig, but with something delicious to eat once you’ve lifted the lid on your personalised hamper!”

Yourhamper.com allows customers to navigate quickly and easily through the website, choosing whether the gift is presented in a classic style hamper with personalised leather tag, a personalised white gift box, or a contemporary wooden box with personalised lid.

After the size and design of the hamper has been chosen, the content can then be selected to suit the occasion and budget. Customers can save time by choosing from the carefully selected ‘quick-fill’ options, or immerse themselves in the choice of individual components. Should they wish, customers can also purchase the personalised packaging empty to fill with homemade goodies.

Hayward says: “Hampers are an excellent gift at Christmas, but we wanted to allow our customers to make their gifts even more personal and to open up the opportunities for more occasion driven gifting throughout the year.  The yourhamper.com offering is all about choice; we want our customers to put their own ideas into their gift by choosing or uploading a design and selecting what is packed into the hampers for their friends, families or colleagues.”

Hamper Blog alex.walker on 08 Sep 2010

Sweet Packing in Full Flow

Virginia Hayward is proud to be home to several high quality brands of our own. From Maxwell and Franks puddings and brandy butters, through to our own ranges of sweets and fudges, we’re very pleased to be able to pack some of our favourite flavours into our Christmas Hampers.

In the run up to Christmas, we are of course busily packing away and putting hundreds of ‘Just Fudge’ bags of fudge into their brand new packaging.

Hamper Blog alex.walker on 02 Sep 2010

113 Days to Christmas…

It feels like a lifetime away, but with just 113 days to go until the 25th of December, Christmas is just around the corner. 10 days ago I could have been convinced that Christmas was only moments away, thanks to the cold and dreary weather that we all experienced last week, but looking out of the window today there’s a glimmer of hope that we might enjoy even the briefest of Indian Summers.

We are of course well prepared for the upcoming season, whichever way it goes, as we have plenty to offer for those of you who can still squeeze in a picnic this summer, or choose something from our range of Christmas Hampers and gifts, if you’re getting the Christmas shopping done early. You can schedule your deliveries to be on a time and date which suits you, or have your gifts delivered directly to your recipient.

To see more from our Christmas range, click here.


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