November 2005
The Christmas Basket Promotion Program
 Our Holiday Season promotion is now a Chamber tradition, anticipated by our community with great delight. We want to thank each of you for your past participation and we want to extend this invitation to all members, present and new, to participate this year. The Christmas Basket promotion continues to be a very successful community effort and terrific exposure for our membership. Thousands of customer entries are received each year through our participating member businesses.
A Gift Baskets filled with products and services either sold or produced here in Plymouth is given away, one each week, during the four weeks before Christmas. Retailers may want to contribute specialty items they would like to promote. And, every year, the Retail Merchants Committee extends an invitation to our Industrial members to feature products manufactured here, for example, Del Monte Foods Corporation ketchup or Dean Pickle, now Bay Valley Foods, products. Highlighting these products will raise public awareness of items sold and produced in our community.
This promotion brings customers into your store each week to sign up for these four drawings. Each week the participating business is to bring that week's sign up slips to the Chamber office by the following Monday. Customers must sign up each week. Each drawing is made from that batch of sign up slips gathered the preceding week.
For a Chamber member business to participate, please call us at 936-2323 to let us know to expect your participation, as a gift giver and as a registration site. Then, bring your four like items, the goods or services you want to donate from your store or business, to the Chamber before 4:00 P.M. on Friday, November 18. Remember to make sure your business is identified (business name and location) on each product item. And remember too, your own in-house gift certificates, will bring the recipients back into your store.
We will give you the sign-up slips, bucket, and posters. We prepare the gift baskets and display the contents of one basket in our front window along with the lists of participating businesses and their gifts beginning the week of Thanksgiving.
The first drawing will be Monday, November 28th. December 5th, 12th and 19th will be the final three drawings.
Chamber Staff note: Our Chamber members are the gift givers. They benefit from the influx of customers during this promotion. Your Chamber Staff works the promotion for you and reaps the most delightful benefit-presenting the baskets to the winners. Just wanted all to know that the grateful recipients over the years have tugged our heart strings and made this a very 'giving' promotion!
Thanks for your help in this promotion! We wish everyone a prosperous holiday season! |
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