The Integrated Warehousing Service
One of these new services is the Integrated Warehousing feature that allows companies to store merchandise and control access of their product selection with their employees, through the utilization of the Givenly platform. The service is designed to even handle the sourcing and inventory monitoring and replenishment activities, delivering true end-to-end value to each customer.


The Kitting Service
Another contributor to last year’s growth was the Kitting Service offered by Givenly. This involves bundling unbranded and branded merchandise into exclusive kits (or sets). These impressive and customized bundles are designed to be sent out to both valued clients and new-hire employees as part of onboarding. Givenly worked on some very big projects during 2020, including one that involved sending out 18,700 kits to employees and clients to announce the IPO for a major customer.


Growth During the Pandemic
Obviously, there is no way to discuss 2020 without mentioning the coronavirus pandemic that took over most of our lives. In response to the outbreak, Givenly utilized its robust and extensive network of vendors to help with the distribution of PPE equipment to companies across various industries. Givenly played a part in ensuring that PPE such as gowns, hand sanitizers, masks, and gloves, as well as other items, were made available on demand to the organizations who needed them.
Thanks to the Integrated Warehousing Service, many clients were able to purchase bulk orders of PPE without needing to store them on-site and control who could access the products and the rate of consumption.


The Address Validation Feature
Givenly also experienced an increase in clients thanks to the launch of the Address Validation Tool. This is an important feature for many of our customers because it allows them to easily update their client’s prospects, partners, and employees’ addresses and contact details, enabling them to send gifts and merchandise with confidence and ease.


The Redemption Portal Service
2020 was also the first year of Givenly offering its Redemption Portal feature. This service provides clients the opportunity to send “the gift of choice” to recipients in the form of a digital link, at which point they can “redeem” an item of their choosing. This service was particularly popular during the holiday season of 2020 when many other gifting services were suffering.


2021 Already Proving to Be Another Successful Year of Growth
Givenly has projected that 2021 will see further large gains in sales. This growth is likely to occur thanks to the expansion of both the Kitting Service and the Integrated Warehousing Services. Furthermore, Givenly.com is expanding its technology prowess by delivering some hotly sought-after Enterprise features, aimed at dramatically increasing the platform’s functionality, which in turn will deliver even greater value to Givenly’s customers.


Finally, Givenly.com CEO Mark Mancini would like to increase the company’s affiliation with an expanded list of charities. As Mr. Mancini puts it “the Pandemic has helped people realize the importance of community and paying it forward. Givenly.com wants to continue living by that philosophy and further contribute to the many noble charities who rely on the support of the community at large to advance their various causes.” During the Pandemic, Givenly.com was a supporter and contributor to the First Responders Children Foundation and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

​Therefore, it is crucial you don’t just see onboarding as a formality you need to follow through on, but something you strategically plan out more. That is why at Givenly, we have introduced special onboarding welcome kits (branded corporate merchandise bundles) that can be utilized as part of your onboarding process.
Some of the benefits of this kind of onboarding include:

Improved Employee Experience
If you don’t want your employees to vote with their feet, you need to make sure you do the best to give them as strong and positive experience working for you. The onboarding process is their introduction to working for your company and can actually help to shape and set the tone for their time with you.
When you, straight off the bat, provide them with branded freebies, it makes them feel like they’ve joined the team. Which can help them to fight their nerves and make them feel valued from the moment they accept your job offer.

Greater Employee Retention
Something that will be at the forefront of your mind whenever you hire new starts, is employee retention, and so it should be. It can be incredibly expensive to constantly refill positions if your employee turnover is higher than normal. We say higher than normal because there will always be some turnover. However, you should be aiming to maximize the value of the time your employees staying working for you.
When you have to replace employees that have not worked much more than a month or so, it is more expensive and a waste of time and money than having to replace a member of the team that has been with you for many years or even decades and provided real value during their time with you.
Some statistics to bear in mind related to strong and effective onboarding and employee retention includes the fact that around 69% of team members are likely to stay with your company for at least 3 years if they had a strong onboarding experience.
This should start as soon as you issue their offer of employment letter because their studies have shown that around 11% of candidates usually change their mind about offers after they have signed. Give them a nice warm welcome and really build on the momentum and excitement generated during your recruitment process. The Givenly onboarding welcome kits can really help in this regard to and don’t worry about how you are going to implement this every time you have a new start. We will handle everything from the design, warehousing, and shipping of your unique and fully corporate branded welcome kit to your employees.

Greater Employee Engagement
When employees are fully engaged, they are more likely to do more than is required of them to achieve goals for the company. This offers your business greater productivity and profitability, and reduces employee turnover, and stops them from taking more sick days than necessary.
One issue is that it is thought that only about 33% of the average workforce is fully engaged. When you follow through on proper and effective onboarding, you can from the very beginning make them feel part of the team and involved in your goals, vision, values, and overarching mission. You should consider setting them up with a buddy they can shadow and learn about the company from. The Givenly welcome kit will ensure your new employees feel engaged with your company and its corporate brand. Even when they are not in the office.
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Strong Company Culture
When it comes to attracting fresh and new talent to your company, it is not important enough to just attract any talent, you want the talent that is right for your business. When your company is built on a strong and intentional culture that is shared from the very start of the recruitment process through to onboarding and beyond, you will be able to attract the best people for your company.
What better way to improve your company culture and show that everyone is part of the team than offering new starts exclusive branded merchandise when they join up?

​To help you understand why you should, in the following post we are going to look at some of the main reasons why you need to have a more robust and consistent supply of PPE for your business. 

Stops the Spread Of COVID-19 and Other Diseases and Viruses
Obviously, the main reason why more companies are now investing in PPE and following social distancing rules is to help slow down and eventually stop the spread of COVID-19. Even if you have never had to wear gloves or face masks in the past, the rules have changed for now. While the focus is primarily on coronavirus because of the worldwide health crisis we are experiencing, the increased use of PPE and social distancing also has the natural side effect of reducing the spread of other infectious diseases and viruses.
We all must do our part, and if you want your brand to come across as caring and thoughtful, you need to put efforts to show you are helping to fight against coronavirus.

Protects Your Employees and Customers, Clients and Members of the Public
This goes hand in hand with the above point. When you invest in the proper PPE and social distancing measures, you are making looking after your employees, customers, clients, and other members of the public a priority. According to WHO and other scientific directions, PPE and social distancing are important in the fight. If you don’t look after your customers and clients or other members of the public that are likely to visit your business premises, it could put people off using your services or visiting you.
Likewise, if you are not looking after your staff and have strict rules in place, you are more likely to experience increased rates of staff taking sick leave. Which can obviously affect your ability to operate as a business.
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Why Choose Givenly?
Now we have covered some of the important reasons why you should invest in PPE to ensure your business is doing all it can to protect your staff and the public, you may wonder why you should choose Givenly over other suppliers. We offer a special PPE on-demand service, where we will source the best equipment. As an extra convenient feature, we can also offer an exclusive warehousing option.
With our PPE warehousing service, we keep your PPE stock stored up, and then when you need the items at your workplace replaced, we will send it out. Everything can be arranged and sorted online.
The extra incentive for choosing Givenly as your PPE supplier is that a portion of all proceeds from orders through our online service are donated directly to the very worthy and much-needed First Responder’s Children’s Foundation.