Hit two meeting trends—customization and experience—by offering on-site gift selection

The On-Site Gift Experience

The Original

Maui Jim personnel fit attendees with sunglasses during a golf event. The on-site experience, including the glasses and the fitters’ time and travel, costs between $100 and $150 per person. The company has worked with groups of up to 5,000 guests.

Maui Jim

Your Perfect Pair

The on-site setup from the Blues Jean Bar. (Yes, it’s Blues Jean Bar, not Blue Jeans Bar—the founder’s goal was to recreate the laid-back feeling of a blues bar.) Attendees work with a “jeantender” to find their perfect color, cut, size, and brand. The company brings several high-end brands (Joe’s, Paige Premium, James) as well as smaller brands that may end up as new favorites. The company has fitted up to 700 attendees.

Price: $125 to $250 per person, including the jeans and the fitters’ time and travel

Blues Jean Bar Experience

High-End Sound

It’s all about sound at The Bose Event Experience, presented by Incentive Concepts. The professional team helps attendees choose the Bose products that best suit their lifestyles. A wide variety of headsets, ear buds, and bluetooth accessories is available, starting $100 per person. Incentive Concepts has run The Bose Event Experience for a group of 100 executives and for a conference with several thousand of a company’s top customers. An ideal size is between 150 and 400 participants.

Bose Event Experience

Telling Time Beautifully

Bulova can provide watch styles for budgets that range from less than $100 per person to several thousand dollars. Watches come with a gift box and gift bag. Bulova sets spending minimums for different program levels, and on-site personnel time and travel expenses vary based on those levels as well. Groups that choose to have watches professionally sized for attendees pay a $10 per person event fee.

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Bring the Sizzle

Hot off the grill comes a new option from Omaha Steaks: the on-site steak tasting. The experience includes a cooking demo, education about different cuts of beef, a take-home guide (“10 Tips to Perfect Grilling”), and an Omaha Steaks gift certificate. The company ships tablecloths and banners; your venue provides the setup. The tasting experience works well with groups of 250 to 500 attendees.

Price: Gift certificates must be a minimum of $75 each; event minimum is $25,000.

Omaha Steaks Tastings

Shades With Benefits

Choosing Tom’s sunglasses as your on-site gift experience adds a philanthropic element. For each pair of glasses you buy, Tom’s donates a portion of the purchase price to fund sight-saving surgery or corrective lenses for people in need.

Price: From $110 per person, including the glasses and the fitters’ time and travel

Tom’s by Blues Jean Bar Experience

Best Foot Forward

How about some high-end flip-flops for a beach resort conference? OluKai sandals range from $59 to $92 per pair. Customized fitting programs can be arranged through Cultivate Premium Corporate Gifts, a company whose sole focus is the on-site experience.

Cultivate Premium Corporate Gifts

First Name in Fashion

A team of “lifestyle experts” from Cultivate Premium Corporate Gifts will work with your attendees to select and fit a collection of stylish Michael Kors watches. The gifts range from $205 to $235 per person.

Cultivate Premium Corporate Gifts

First-Class Travel

Trying out sample products on site, your attendees work with Tumi personnel to find gear that fits their travel and lifestyle preferences. Bags are shipped to their homes or offices for arrival 10 days after your event. Offerings come in three categories: Tumi Travel Bags, including wheeled carry-ons and duffels, which retail from $645 to $695; Tumi Day Bags and Business Cases, including backpacks, briefcases, and totes, retailing from $345 to $395; and Tumi Personal Leather Goods, including wallets and card cases, retailing from $90 to $98.

Volume discounts apply and there is a $500 fee per Tumi representative on site. Total cost is averaged to come up with a per-recipient price.

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