Three Bears Emporium

Forty-Five Thousand Boxes, And Counting.

A family in Tyne and Wear started putting gift boxes together in 2020, for the reasons everybody started something in 2020, and have since sent out rather more than forty-five thousand of them. The thing they worked out early, which a surprising number of gift companies never do, is that the recipient opens the box before they read the card. So the packing is the present: tissue, ribbon, the whole thing arranged so the first three seconds are worth something.

The range covers the occasions that actually happen rather than the ones on a marketing calendar. Birthdays and new jobs, obviously, but also the difficult ones: a sympathy box, a get well box, a thinking of you box for the friend having a thoroughly rotten month. There are pamper and shower sets, food hampers, gardening boxes, terrarium kits, and letterbox gifts sized to go through a door when nobody is in, which removes the one thing capable of ruining a surprise. Or you can build your own, choosing each item, which is how a thirteen-year-old recently assembled one for her big sister, handwritten card and original spelling included.

For more good presents, have a browse of our gift sets and hampers and gifts for her collections, or carry on to bathroom, candles and home fragrance and bump to baby. There are more businesses like this one in family owned, and more close to home in British brands.