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The Gift Voucher Shop
 The Gift Voucher Shop is a unique innovation developed by Total Shopping Convenience Ltd. In Early 2002 it formed a Strategic Partnership with An Post and launched in September 2002. Currently employing 16 people, The Gift Voucher Shop is a new phenomenon that eliminates all hassles normally associated with gift giving. With this new service consumers no longer have to travel to a particular shop, business or department store to purchase the gift voucher they want, they can simply call into their local Post Office, log onto www.giftvouchershop.ie, or phone 01 807 5100 and buy the gift voucher/s of their choice.
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The Gift Voucher Shop Launch
L-R: Sheree Tynan, Gary Heffernan, Jock Jordan, Meris Heffernan, Geraldine O’ Grady, Michael Dawson, Eamonn Dawson, Dermot Ahern, T.D., Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, Ruth Johnston, Aoife Davey, Rory McDonnell, Denise Magennis, Paul Larkin, Conor Haughey.
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Merchants
The Gift Voucher Shop’s merchants include the top and most prestigious companies in Ireland including Arnotts, Brown Thomas, Habitat, Clerys, Argos, The K Club, Mount Juliet, Lifestyle Sports, Woodies, Topshop, Dorothy Perkins, Jury Doyle Hotels, and many more. In all, over 500 businesses are now part of The Gift Voucher Shop covering all major outlets in Ireland.
Gift Vouchers are individually branded with the name and logo of the participating retail business merchant and are of the highest security specification. Participating merchants appear in 1.5 million Gift Voucher Shop Directories distributed nationally and internationally, on various forms of Advertising and Promotional material and on The Gift Voucher Shop website; enabling participating merchants to expand their customer base and provide a more convenient service to their existing customers.
Additional Services
The Gift Voucher Shop also offers services such as Corporate Solutions and The Wedding List. The Gift Voucher Shop Corporate Solutions offers choice and flexibility to companies in Ireland in offering incentives and reward programmes to staff and customers. Regardless of the size of the business, The Gift Voucher Shop corporate team tailor a programme to meet its requirements.
The Wedding list is an ideal solution for wedding couples. This allows the couple to choose which merchants they would like to receive vouchers for and to post the list on the website enabling anyone from anywhere in the world to purchase from their list.
The Perfect Gift Voucher
The obvious advantage to both these services is the option of The Perfect Gift Voucher. The Perfect Gift Voucher is the ideal solution to any gift giving or incentivising dilemmas. If you cannot choose one particular gift voucher to give or you would like the recipient to choose for him/herself simply purchase the Perfect Gift Voucher. This gives the recipient the chance to choose which of the 500+ merchants they would like to purchase from and in their own time. The Perfect Gift Voucher is only available on the web or by telephone at present.
Key Milestones
The past year has been extremely eventful for The Gift Voucher Shop with key milestones such as, winning the Best New Business Award and forming an alliance with Esso.
Best New Business Award
The Gift Voucher Shop won the title of The Best New Business Award from the Fingal Chamber of Commerce in 2002 and received a special award for Innovation from the Enterprise Board.
Esso Loyalty campaign
The Esso TigerMiles reward programme has selected The Gift Voucher Shop to reward Esso customers with the ultimate choice in gift vouchers for their continued loyalty. This new venture offers Esso customers the opportunity to swap TigerMiles for gift vouchers from any of the 500+ businesses in The Gift Voucher Shop Directory. This provides yet another medium for consumers to avail of gift vouchers.
Niamh Wood, Esso loyalty manager UK and Ireland, said, “I’m delighted to announce this reward scheme with The Gift Voucher Shop as it means that we are providing our customers with thousands of choices when spending TigerMiles”. | L-R:Michael Dawson (Managing Director GVS), Glenda Gilson, Esso’s famous trademark Tiger, Tanya Avarez, and Nicky Russell (Esso Loyalty Executive)
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So if you are looking for the perfect gift for a loved one or wedding couple, interested in improving your employee reward programme or are just curious…. Log on to www.giftvouchershop.ie or pick up a Directory at your local Post Office.
The Gift Voucher Shop’s success roarrrs on and on........
Less then a year since it formed a strategic alliance with An Post to sell gift vouchers for 500 of Ireland’s top businesses in 1,000 Post Offices Nationwide, The Gift Voucher Shop this week announced that it had just taken over fulfilment for the Esso TigerMile reward programme.
Now that The Gift Voucher Shop has teamed up with Esso Ireland-the ultimate reward will be provided for all members of the TigerMiles scheme.
All Esso card holders will be able to redeem their TigerMiles points for gift vouchers chosen from the 500 businesses in The Gift Voucher Shop directory, The Gift Voucher Shop has the greatest choice of gift vouchers available in Ireland all under the one roof. This new scheme is the most extensive reward scheme of any Irish petrol retailer.
As part of the new alliance, The Gift Voucher Shop directory will now be available throughout 250 Esso stations nation-wide in addition to the 1,000 post office network. So it could not be easier to get your hands on a copy. You can join the Esso TigerMiles scheme simply by filling out the form at your local Esso station. Michael Dawson Managing Director for the Gift Voucher shop said “The partnership forged with the Esso TigerMiles scheme is evidence of its increasing popularity with the general public. Everyone at the Gift Voucher Shop, An Post our business partner, and all of the 500 businesses in the service, many of which are located in the Galway area are thrilled to be associated with the Esso reward scheme”. Niamh Wood Esso Loyalty Manager UK and Ireland said, “I’m delighted to announce this reward scheme with the Gift Voucher Shop as it means that we are providing our customers with thousands of choices when spending their TigerMiles”.
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