Finding the right holiday gift for employees can be surprisingly difficult.
You want something thoughtful without being too personal. You want it to represent your company without feeling like another promotional product. Most importantly, you want employees to actually enjoy receiving it.
For Canadian companies, custom toques check all of those boxes.
They are practical, easy to distribute, and useful throughout the winter. With the right design, they can also become a piece of company apparel employees genuinely choose to wear.
At Toques From The Heart, there is another reason to feel good about giving custom toques this holiday season. For every toque purchased, we donate one to a Canadian experiencing homelessness.
Here is why custom toques are a great addition to your corporate holiday gifting plans.
Give Something Employees Will Actually Use
There is no shortage of corporate gift ideas.
Drinkware, notebooks, gift boxes, tech accessories, and other promotional products can all have their place. But one of the biggest questions when choosing a gift should always be simple: will people actually use it?
In Canada, a toque is useful for months of the year.
Employees can wear it on their commute, walking the dog, heading to a hockey game, spending time outdoors, or simply getting through another cold Canadian morning.
That practicality helps a custom toque continue providing value long after the holidays are over.
Make Company Merchandise Feel Like a Gift
There is an important difference between receiving company merchandise and receiving a company gift.
The design plays a big role.
A toque covered in oversized corporate branding can feel promotional. A high quality toque with great colours and subtle branding feels much more like something you would choose for yourself.
Consider a small woven label, clean patch, or simple embroidered logo. Choose colours your employees would normally wear.
The goal is to create a toque that happens to feature your brand, rather than making the brand the entire focus of the toque.
Bring Your Team Together
Corporate holiday gifts can also help create a stronger sense of connection across your organization.
This is especially valuable for businesses with employees working across multiple offices, remotely, or in different parts of the country.
Sending everyone the same piece of branded winter apparel gives the team something they share, even if they do not work in the same location every day.
Custom toques can also be handed out at holiday parties, year-end meetings, employee appreciation events, or winter team activities.
Give a Gift With a Bigger Story
A thoughtful gift becomes even more meaningful when employees understand the impact behind it.
For every toque purchased from Toques From The Heart, another toque is donated to a Canadian experiencing homelessness.
If your organization purchases 100 employee gifts, 100 additional toques are donated.
If you have a team of 1,000, another 1,000 toques can help provide warmth to people who need it.
That allows a corporate holiday gift to extend well beyond your own organization.
Share the Impact With Employees
When you distribute your holiday gifts, tell your employees about the donation their toque helped create.
You can include an impact card with each toque or explain the program in your holiday message to the team.
Instead of simply saying, “Here is your company gift,” you can tell employees that another Canadian will receive warmth because of it.
It is a small detail that can completely change how the gift is perceived.
Support Canadian Made This Holiday Season
The holiday season is also a great opportunity for companies to think about where their gifts come from.
Our custom toques are made in Canada, allowing organizations to support Canadian manufacturing while purchasing something designed for Canadian winters.
For companies looking to purchase more Canadian made corporate gifts, custom toques are a natural fit.
Your order can support Canadian manufacturing, provide a useful gift to your employees, and help Canadians experiencing homelessness at the same time.
Include Custom Toques in a Larger Holiday Gift Box
A custom toque does not necessarily need to be the entire gift.
It can also become the centrepiece of a larger employee holiday package.
Pair your toque with locally made snacks, coffee, a handwritten holiday card, socks, or other small Canadian products to create a complete winter gift box.
For remote employees, these packages can be shipped directly to their homes so everyone can be included in the holiday celebration.
Start Planning Your Corporate Holiday Gifts
October is here, which means corporate holiday gifting season is about to get busy.
If your organization is considering custom toques for employees, clients, or partners this year, now is the time to start planning your order.
At Toques From The Heart, we help businesses create Canadian made custom toques that combine quality, practicality, and purpose.
And every single toque purchased provides another toque to a Canadian experiencing homelessness.
✔️ Canadian made custom toques
✔️ Bulk corporate ordering
✔️ Custom colours and branding
✔️ Great for employee holiday gifts and gift boxes
✔️ One toque donated for every toque purchased
Make this year's corporate holiday gift something your employees will actually use, while helping another Canadian stay warm. Contact Toques From The Heart to start your custom toque order.