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A Christmas gift is a gift that made such an employer gives to its staff around Christmas.

Employers use a Christmas gift to express their Christmas wishes to their employees. Giving a Christmas gift is a tradition in eg the Netherlands and England. In England called their Christmas gifts 'Christmas hampers'.

A Christmas gift is usually a box or basket or bag with gifts. The contents of a Christmas gift varies annually. Most of the time with a lasting gift luxury food there. In addition, there are Christmas presents by the employees themselves can be selected and where the employee so a Christmas get-to-measure. This is often a lasting gift, a day out or a donation to charity.

Giving out Christmas Hampers has been around since the 1900 hundrends. It's a tradtion that been kept on quite long already!

Giving a present in the form of a Christmas Hamper is a Christian tradition for many centuries.  It were farmers at the beginning of the 19th century, who gave their employees a present for their efforts. They produced packages with food and other useful items in December. On Boxing Day they surprised their employees with the packages.

The Christmas Hampers were such a great hit that not long after trades people also gave their employees a hamper.  In just a few years time the Christmas present became a national tradition.

Always a nice Christmas gift
It is difficult to find a nice Christmas gift for your colleagues, right? What kind of presents makes everybody happy you wonder. How do you prevent some of the gifts disappear forever in the basement? The answer is simple: let your employees choose their own gifts.

Usually employers give their employees rather dull presents. Fast amounts of the content of christmas hampers are thrown out because people don't like the food/drinks or goods. That's a shame, hence it's better to let your employees choose their own gift!

Years ago a 16 year old student started a website where you could swap your Christmas Present. He got the Eureka moment when he was browsing through online marketplaces, but could not found any Christmas hampers.

The Christmas-swapping web site is unique.  But the venture became a success. The web site has got 300 hundred visitors a day around Christmas. On average 4 or 5 Christmas Hampers are submitted every day. The Belgian boy is happy with the result and even outsourced the maintenance to a friend of his.

Because swapping of Christmas hampers was such a hit in The Netherlands and the origins of the web site were in Belgium, internationalisation was a logical step. The young entrepreneur thought to be as successful in The Netherlands as the web site was in Belgium.

The Christmas hamper is a real Dutch tradition as well as an English tradition.

The Belgian Entrepreneur learned a lot about bartering on the web and also supplied visitors with another solution; swapping gifts.