Custom Corporate Gifts and Employee Appreciation Gifts
Every company hits swag season sooner or later. A corporate event is coming up, a big team meeting, or time for customer gifts around the holidays. There's a time and place for a branded water bottle or notebook, but the typical items can start to feel boring or dated after years of getting the same thing. When you want something more unique, that's where we come in.
At Mainland Vintage, we make handmade corporate gifts, small business gifting sets, and employee appreciation gifts from our Brooklyn studio. Everything is made in small batches, made to order, and built around your brand's look and colors so it feels truly one-of-a-kind.
And the best part? It's a consumable product, so it won't get put in a drawer somewhere and never used.
What Makes a Corporate Gift Different
Ordering from our standard collection is a great option if you've found something that fits what you're looking for. Especially for companies based in NYC, we have an entire collection of New York themed soaps that might already be the perfect fit. But a custom order is a different kind of project. We start with a conversation about your company, your brand, and what would make a gift feel specific to you instead of interchangeable with every other vendor gift box.
A company gift that feels specific, not generic, is the kind of detail that makes people remember you.
Here are two corporate orders that show how different that conversation can go.
Integral Analytics, Ohio
Integral Analytics works with clients using hexagon grid maps to visualize data. For a tradeshow, they wanted a gift that could be a visual representation of their product. We incorporated the hexagon pattern directly into the soap design and matched their exact brand colors. It stood out on the tradeshow floor because it was clearly made for them and no one else.
The YMCA, New York
A Manhattan YMCA location came to us wanting Christmas gifts for their staff, people doing real, hands-on work with their community every day. We used the organization's brand colors and made a custom Thank You label. For a team that gives so much during the year, it became a small, personal way of saying thank you.
How Corporate Orders Actually Work
You tell us about your company, the occasion, and roughly how many people you're gifting for. We'll talk through which products make sense for the group, from soap or reed diffusers for a larger team to a smaller, custom gift set for a handful of clients.
Every custom order includes a personalized label designed with your brand's colors and fonts. If you want your logo stamped into the product itself or a custom mold built around what your company does, like the hexagon soap for Integral Analytics, we can design that too.
Once you approve the design, everything is hand-poured in our Brooklyn studio. The same care goes into an order of twenty as an order of two hundred.
Minimums and Timeline
Minimums are low and flexible, usually starting around 16 units, so a small business ordering client gifts for the first time doesn't need to commit to a bulk order just to get something custom. A one-time $20 design fee applies per unique design and covers the full consultation: color, scent, label design. Custom molds or stamps can run additional fees, and we will cover exact costs during the consultation.
Most custom orders take 2 to 5 weeks depending on size and complexity. If you're planning around a specific date, holiday gifting especially, the earlier you reach out, the more room we have to get the timing right.
Getting Started
If you're a small business, agency, or corporate team thinking about client gifts, employee appreciation, or a tradeshow giveaway that people will actually remember, that's enough to start the conversation.
Tell us about your company and what you're imagining, and we'll follow up with next steps and a detailed quote.
You can also browse our Custom Orders Lookbook to see more of these stories and get a sense of what's possible for your team.
Start your custom order here. Explore the Lookbook.
Thanks,
The Mainland Vintage Team