Why Advent Calendars
An effective advertising technique to help promote your business and offer a little thank you to your customers during the build-up to Christmas.
Our advent calendars can be fully customised, front, and back, in full colour using our design services, supplying your own artwork or choosing from a range of design templates.
We have a large range of calendars to choose from with leading brands including Lindt, Lindor, Celebrations and Toblerone featuring 24 featuring delicious milk chocolates behind traditional folding doors.
Let us help you design an eye-catching and practical festive gift to promote brand awareness in the 24 day build up before Christmas. Personally, give to your customer as a thank you gift, or a giveaway in showrooms, at a conference, meetings or trade show. If you can place your order early we can deliver early November for retail prior to the Christmas countdown. Pay careful attention to deadline dates to avoid disappointment.
For our branded chocolate such as Lindt & Toblerone the deadline date for ordering is the 30th September. All other advents are 30th October.
On a selection of our calendars we can also facilitate a Direct Mail campaign by supplying Mail order cartons either flat or packed for you.
Benefits of promoting
- Say thank you and promote your business during the lead up to Christmas
- Guaranteed Interaction with your brand for 24 days
- Large Full-Colour Branding Area: back, front, sides & inside (behind doors)
- Printing behind doors which enables sales promotional versatility. Eg: QR Codes
- High-quality delicious chocolate
- Each Chocolate individually foil sealed for freshness
- Cost-effective engagement campaign
- Postal Friendly for direct mail campaign to customers, suppliers & homeworkers
- Complete fulfilment solution
- Made in the UK and the EU
- Eco-Friendly Packaging
- Low M.O.Q from 100 units
How It Works
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Example Calendar Details
Desktop Calendar
| Desktop Size: | 200 x 204mm |
| Door Size | 25 x 25mm |
| Net Weight: | 50g |
| Chocolate Size: | 18 x 18mm |
| Material: | 450-micron board |
| Packing Qty: | 50 Units |
Traditional Calendar
| Desktop Size: | 305 x 229mm |
| Door Size | 35 x 25mm |
| Net Weight: | 75g |
| Chocolate Size: | 26 x 17mm |
| Material: | 450-micron board |
| Packing Qty: | 25 Units |
Artwork & Delivery Dates
| Our UK produced Desktop & Traditional Calendars | Order and artwork sign off by 30th October |
| Our Leading Brand Calendars (e.g Lindt / Toblerone) | Order and sign off by 30th September |
Final Artwork Deadline is 12pm on the 30th September 2023
for delivery on the 30th November 2023
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About Our Calendars
Our Promotional Advent Calendars are a delicious and memorable way to count down the days till Christmas. Perfect for promoting your brand, company, product launch, event or as a corporate giveaway during the festive season. Each Advent Calendar can be personalised with your artwork in full colour and contains 24 sumptuous milk chocolate pieces behind the traditional numbered door flaps.
Keeping it fresh!
Our delicious chocolate is made from high-quality ingredients. Our promotional calendars are all sealed to keep the chocolate fresh.
Behind closed doors
We can personalise the inside of the packaging as well so you can hide message behing the folding door, great for revealing daily messages, discount codes or promotional campaign. Direct Mail Complete Fulfilment
Direct Mail Complete Fulfilment
We offer a complete fulfilment service on selected advents where we can pack your calendars in a protective carton, add an address label and post them out in time for the 1st of December.
This will save you time and money!
Alternatively, we can pack in Mail Out Sleeves with your delivery ready for you to post out
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What is an advent calendar?
A: Traditionally an advent calendar is a count-down calendar. A promotional box of chocolate containing 24 individual chocolates hidden behind doors counting down to Christmas. Supplied in different designs and sizes to be placed on desk or wall.
Q: Is the Advent Calendar a great substitute for the Christmas Card?
A: Our budget range of Advent Calendars competed with the high-end range of Christmas Cards.
Q: What is the Advent Calendar offer?
A: We offer the Traditional Wall and Desktop Advent Calendar that is specifically designed and printed to customer's artwork provided.
Q: What is the quality of printing?
A: We print using a printing format called flexo print. This form of printing is of the highest quality in full colour.
Q: How many colours can the advent calendar be printed?
A: We print a 4-colour process – so you can have as many colours as required without additional cost.
Q: What is the size of the advent calendar?
A: We supply in various sizes. The Desktop is approx. 200mm x 200mm and our Traditional A4 Size approx. For our Round, House and Truck Calendars, we will supply specific templates.
Q: How much chocolate is in the calendars?
A: Our traditional calendar contains 24 pieces weighing 70g – 100g. The desk top calendar has 24 pieces weighing 50g. Depends on which one you choose
Q: Which calendar is more popular?
A: There is a bigger demand for the desktop calendar as it is lower cost and is a good promotional technique that sits on customers desk as a continual reminder of your products and services.
Q: What is the cost of the Advent Calendar?
A: Advents are priced according to size, quantity ordered plus a setup charge for print origination and a delivery charge. Please contact us for a quote.
Q: What is the quality of the chocolate?
A: Our tasty, delicious chocolate is Belgium recipe chocolate with 32% minimum cocoa solids using the finest ingredient for that quality taste finish.
Our Branded chocolate that includes Lindt, Lindor, Milka, Celebrations, Toblerone and other brands is of highest production standards
Q: What are the chocolates best before date?
A: Our chocolate has a best before date of 4- 12 months depending on which content you choose.
Q: Can you supply tasting samples, so we can be assured of the quality?
A: Yes, we can send UK produced samples upon request. You can then see for yourself the quality of the print and taste our delicious chocolate. We cannot send sampes of EU produced calendars due to cost and timing.
Q: How are the calendars packed?
A: We pack in multiples of 25 for the Traditional Calendar and 50’s for the desktop calendar. However can vary depending on the specific calendar you choose.
Q: Can we have our own chocolate mould?
A: We can produce a bespoke Advent Calendar mould with your own design for an extra fee.
Q: Can you supply mail order cartons for direct mail campaigns and post out to individual addresses?
A: We can supply mail order cartons. We can address and despatch the cartons on client’s behalf. All you need to do is supply the addresses. ‘It is the year of the Home Office Worker’ so why not look after your staff at Christmas time! When delivered we can guarantee freshness as the chocolate is silver foil sealed inside the Advent Calendar
Q: Can we use the calendar for Sales Promotion?
A: Our advent calendar has tremendous flexibility. The chocolate itself can be moulded to your design and we can print behind the doors. So, your advertising messages, promotional competition codes or QR codes can be printed behind the doors.
Q: Are there design guidelines?
A: Yes, we will supply you with a template to work on. As previously mentioned, we will help you with the design. When the final design is agreed we will send you a printer's proof for sign off before we proceed to production.
Q: Can the Advent Calendar substitute for a quality Christmas Gift?
A: We have a range of Advent Calendars available, with variable designs to meet your budget requirements. Whether it has branded Lindt Chocolates at the premium end for a Big thank you. Or our budget Advent Calendars for a little thank you at the end of the year.
Q: What is the latest date for ordering the calendars?
A: We have two latest deadline dates where proof sign-off has to be completed. For calendars produced in the E.U. the deadline date is 30th September. Our UK calendar 30th October
Q: Can we order our advent calendars to be delivered on a specific date?
A: Depending on the calendars you choose we can arrange to deliver within specific dates. Some of our UK calendars are produced on specific batch dates for delivery mid-November
Q: Are there design templates available
A: Yes, we have a range of designs you can choose from FOC and we can then add your logo and advertising message. If you require your own bespoke design our studio can complete based on your brief (for a small fee).
Q: How do we order?
A: You need to send us a Purchase Order detailing all your requirements including quantity, price, delivery address and contact number. Should you require us to Direct Mail to recipient addresses we will require an Excel spreadsheet with all delivery addresses, so we can print the labels and apply them to the mail order carton. For bulk deliveries, you will need to order in specific quantities as listed on pricelist. We cannot split these quantities unless we are operating a fulfilment direct mail programme for you.
Q: How do we deliver to you?
A: We deliver on pallets to ensure that there is no damage in transit. For small quantities of 100, we pack in a double-walled carton and send we out by courier. We can track both courier and pallet despatches.
Design Templates
We have downloadable high-resolution images which we have picked to help you design your advent calendar.
You can download the image by clicking on the thumbnail below. You can also download the blank artwork template PDF and guidelines documents at the bottom. Please follow the artwork guideline PDF as wrongly supplied artwork might result in problems in the printing process or incur studio costs to put any errors or problems right!
