Baskets Galore Ireland

Christmas Shopping Begins This is our 16th year of packing Christmas Hampers, the 8th Christmas in our current facility. Our hampers are distinctive because we work ever so hard throughout the year to investigate new concepts and introduce new combinations. It is our mission to extract value through efficiencies of scale and operation, so that our customers are delighted with their Gift Hampers and Baskets. This invariably attracts the attention of those who understand the difficulty of packing and producing hampers and ask us to apply our gift packing skills. October and early November are extremely busy months for us as we contract pack other organisation’s Christmas hampers so they can appear in their shops. But from this moment on, we get to test the desirability of our gift creations which we developed in March. Christmas Hamper Offers For 2019 we have more than 200 Christmas Hampers available for purchase as a gift, but truth be told, ther...

We're still busy packing away, preparing for the avalanche of Christmas orders coming and going daily at this point. That's why it's imperative that you place your Christmas order with us as soon as possible. Here is a peek behind the scenes at our busy warehouse staff pre-packing a variety of our Giant Christmas Hampers such as The King's Hamper, The Queen's Hamper and The President's Hamper today to stay ahead of the demand - a live action preview of all our hard work and preparation that allows us to be faster, better organised, and ultimately allows us to deliver our exceptional customer service experience, which we are very proud of! Packing very large luxury hamper's such as these is certainly time intensive, as you can see they a brimming with an extensive range of high quality food's.  The greatest care is taken by our hardworking staff to ensure that all of that product neatly fits into not one but two large wicker Hampers and that the im...

The warehouse is bustling, our team are scurrying about packing, wrapping and boxing carefully with precision, taking in everything and ensuring the gift basket your friends and family are going to receive is perfect in every way. 40% of our gift baskets are already allocated and the festive season has only really begun. You might be asking, Why is so much of their stock allocated already? We work tirelessly year round creating new gift baskets, making little changes to well loved favourites, listening to your feedback and bettering ourselves from it. But just like any business, Christmas is our most busy time of the year which is why we need to be prepared. We get in extra staff and work around the clock to meet the demand during the festive season. Our gift  baskets and hampers all contain only the finest and freshest ingredients but we must pre-pack in order to be prepared. Currently 40% of our pre-packed gift baskets are allocated to customers who have already got th...

    A lthough it is only the beginning of December we are already 30% reserved! We are a small family run business who have grown from nothing and our belief in only filling the gift baskets and hampers in our range with the finest and freshest products has got us to where we are today. We believe this is the reason we are so popular and have customers returning year after year… they know no matter what the price point their hamper will be bursting with only the most fresh, luxurious products which have been crafted to the highest standard.   When it comes to Christmas we must prepare months in advance. The process begins during the summer - developing new products, tweaking old favourites to keep them up to date with current trends and from looking back at previous years sales we can forecast which gift baskets and hampers will be our best sellers in order to roughly estimate how many hampers will need pre-packed in the run up to Christmas.   ...

Christmas Hamper Gifts in Ireland around €150 Not only do we have a reputation for being great value but we also stock products customers really enjoy. We use a multitude of methods when developing our hampers. Firstly, we use a method of gradual evolutionary improvement. This is where we take well loved hampers over the years and tweak them using the customer feedback provided by yourselves. We also come with new and innovative products biannually, pioneering the gift basket and hamper industry by creating unique never before done products.   Take a little peak below at some of our well loved hampers we give a little jiggle every now and again in order to keep the up to date:   Great Taste Award Bronze Duo Hamper - €155 A member of our great taste award winning range, this hamper is bursting with gourmet and artisan products produced throughout Ireland. Chocolate pudding made by Ireland’s master baker, indulgent kitchen made chocolate sauce, Handmade chutney, t...

Happy 2011 & a big thank you to all our customers for shopping with BasketsGalore last year & throughout the years! Christmas 2010 was certainly a challenge as we experienced some of the most extreme weather conditions ever faced across the UK & Ireland. The snow, ice & sub-zero temperatures experienced throughout December grounded flights, closed rail links and left traffic at a standstill. Read more here . At BasketsGalore we managed to keep dispatching all your Christmas gifts , despite nearly getting snowed in on a couple of occasions. A Thunder-Snow storm hit (a thunder & lightning storm with snow rather than rain – a rare phenomenon apparently) & we had to dig our cars out to get home (pictures to follow soon!) Some of our suppliers couldn’t reach our premises to deliver new stock, so we had to greet them at the top of the road & carry boxes through the snow. Obviously after we dispatch our gift baskets, they need to be delivered to the end recipient b...

I have just checked & it is only 81 days til Christmas!! Has anyone started their Christmas shopping yet? A few of our customers have, as our Christmas order file is starting to mount up! We have been busy working behind the scenes, since before the summer time, designing & photographing our Christmas hamper range . We hope you like the choice of Traditional Christmas hampers and our Gourmet Christmas hamper range with a more modern twist! It has been great fun taste-testing new products to include this year, including the new choice of fresh hams & freshly baked cakes and buns. As usual we like to think we have the best & biggest choice of Non-Alcoholic Christmas gift hampers around. The majority of our delicious food items are produced by local Irish Artisan producers, so you will notice these scattered throughout our Christmas food hampers . Since our original Christmas hamper selecion was finalised, we had a great idea for a new Christmas range! This exciting new...

The Story of the Traditional Christmas Hamper A man walks into the office and exclaims how unusual it is to see a “hamper company” busy when it isn’t Christmas time. “Yes, that’s because we’re not really a hamper company,” is our reply. “Don’t be silly,” he says, “you make hampers and so you must be a hamper company . If you’re not a hamper company, then what are you?” “We’re a Euro Style Gift Basket Company.” He laughs and says that there is no difference. A hamper here is referred to as a gift basket in America. It’s still the same thing. "Is it?", we say: “A hamper in Ireland was traditionally a charitable gift given at Christmas time and tended to be a variety of groceries, which were packed in a box and filled with foods, of quite distinctly average taste. A Gift Basket accentuates Gourmet food products and places significant emphasis on the presentation, packaging and service.” “I did hampers a couple of years ago he tells me. We were asked by one of the local ba...