We’re now down to the last few days when you’ll be able to buy hotel supplies in the UK at the reduced rate of VAT of 15% - come January 1st, it will jump back up to the normal 17.5%.  If you were thinking of stocking up and aren’t VAT registered, don’t delay, as buying now effectively saves you 2.5% of the total cost of your supplies.

We stock a wide range of hotel supplies including hotel kettles and appliances, hotel coat hangers and furnishings, hotel toiletries and hotel slippers, key fobs and door tags, luggage stands, and much more along side our range of personalised pens, pencils, and other promotional products.

For those buying IT equipment for their hotel, buying before the end of the tax year could also be of benefit, and the rules surrounding expenses and depreciation will change in 2010.

Best wishes for you and your hotel in 2010.

We monitor our web statistics closely to ensure we’re offering the best online experience possible to our website’s visitors.  We know for example that many of you comes looking for general hotel supplies, others for more general promotional products like personalised pens, where as others are coming with very specific products in mind.   So without further ado, our top products of 2009, in reverse order for added drama, where:

Restaurant Menu Covers

We have a wide range of restaurant menu covers so it’s no surprise that menu covers made the list.  Our modern buckram menu covers were by far the most sought of our products, but more popular still than our menus were our menu accessories, including menu tassles and acrylic menu stands and leather bill presenters.

Hotel Toiletries

Also popular were our hotel toiletries and soaps, particularly our Taylor of London toiletries.  This makes sense given that guest toiletries needs to be regularly replenished - we actually also sell large Taylor of London Refill containers for guest shampoos, conditioners, shower gel, lotion etc.  To complement our personalised soaps, we also have dental and shaving kits.

Personalised Pens and Personalised Pencils

Personalised Pens and Pencils are one of our most often ordered and repeatedly ordered personalised products - our customers are putting them to good use, they keep coming back for more!  It’s encouraging to see that our eco pens are one of the most sought after and purchased of our products across the whole site, followed closely by our vegetal pen (biodegradable).  Similarly, our small pencils and triangular pencils were the most popular products in our personalised pencils range.

Hotel Key Tags

Although we have a wide range of hotel key tags, the most popular was the rather elegant rectangular acrylic hotel key tag with encapsulated print.  The example product on display has a black plastic finish, rounded corners and a well designed logo printed in the center, created a very classy and modern yet portable key tag.  Also popular (the runners up!) where these more traditional hotel key fobs with brass split key rings and more cost-effective brass number discs with hole for keyring.

Hotel Slippers

Our hotel slippers have always been one of our more popular product, and our ongoing sale on non-personalised, open-toed wholesale towelling slippers for hotel rooms has certainly helped!  All of our hotel slippers are made of fluffy white terry-towelling of either 110gsm or 190gsm for extra luxury.  We offer open-toed slippers and closed-toe slippers, both of which can be personalised or left non-personalised.

Hotel Coat Hangers

In addition to our hotel key tags and slippers, our next most popular hotel products are our wholesale hotel coat hangers.  In addition to classic hooked anti-slip wooden coat hangers, we also offer anti-theft hotel security coat hangers with associated security rings.  As a popular hotel supplier of hangers in the UK, in addition to a qualitywooden finish we also offer wholesale padded coat hangers and cheaper brown plastic hangers.

T’is the season to be merry, and we’ve a wide range of corporate gifts for christmas to ensure your staff, colleagues and clients are as merry as can be!  In fact, we’ve so ‘merry’, we’ve had to divide them up into six categories!

Business Christmas Gifts

For the discerning businessman or business women, consider one of our many more business-oriented gifts.  The Deluxe Leather Business Folder for example, is a luxury nappa leather that’s very smart & stylish when attending meetings, and can be personalised with the company logo or perhaps a festive design.  Alternatively, our Executive World Clock would make an excellent corporate christmas gift if your recipients are often travelling overseas, or our Pocket Calculator and World Clock in one.

Perhaps more appropriate for men, this Travel Grooming Set personalised with the company logo would make an excellent christmas corporate gift for a team often on the road, showing you appreciate their efforts.

Personal Corporate Gifts for Christmas

We also have a number of more personal or lifestyle corporate gifts perfect for christmas give-aways.  These personalised golf tags are great for men or women known to play golf, and similarly these engraved cufflinks would make excellent christmas gifts for a young, stylish male team.

We also have a range of personalised umbrellas and golf umbrellas which make great corporate christmas gifts because it’s very common to have a promotional umbrellas or two, and in winter they can be very much appreciated!  For those with partners, consider the Twinbrella, which is a romantic umbrella for two.

Edible Corporate Christmas Gifts

Another route you might consider when offering your staff, colleagues or clients christmas gifts is food, sweets and biscuits to be enjoyed during the christmas break.  We offer tins of crumbly Personalised Shortbread for example, which go down very well.  Alternatively if chocolates are more your thing, we have personalised chocolate boxes and Truffles of all sorts!  For the more discerning eye, we also offer Personalised Luxury Confectionary Boxes, tied with golden ribbon, full of toffees, chocolates or fudge.

Fun Corporate Christmas Gifts

I couldn’t resist including this.  If your staff have a sense of humour and are up for a bit of fun, get a variety of these cute personalised bath toys for some fun around the office before the chrismas break.  The dinosaurs are great!  We also have a range of ever-popular personalised stress-busters in various shapes and styles.

Alcoholic Corporate Christmas Gifts

The list wouldn’t be complete without a few *merry* christmas gifts of a more alcoholic nature!   If you’re celebrating a good year or specific acheivement along with christmas, a personalised bottle of champage congratulating your staff can go down very well.  We also have personalised wine and personalised whisky in various volumes.

If you’re buying a lower volume of corporate gifts that should convey that bit more appreciation, consider offering Personalised Chrystal Tot Glasses or Pewter Quaichs, boxed in a personalised presentation box with a whisky miniature alongside.

Children’s Christmas Gifts

Finally, for the younger audience consider our mini and large promotional teddy bears, our bumper fun packs or colouring books.  Don’t forget that parents love to treat their children at christmas time, so corporate gifts their children will enjoy also go down well.

With all these ideas, you shouldn’t have any problem finding the perfect christmas corporate gifts for your staff, colleagues or customers this christmas!

Merry Christmas!

Our range of wholesale coat hangers for hotels have just gone on sale!  The offer includes both padded & wooden coat hangers, both on offer as:

• Hooked or Anti-Theft Coat Hangers (Security Fixing)
• Coat Hangers with Trouser Rail or with Skirt Clips

Wooden Anti-Theft Coat Hangers (Security Fixing) with Trouser Rail for example start from just 48p per coat hanger for orders or 500 or more.  For orders of 100, the same hangers are just 52p each.  Satin, padded coat hangers also start from 48p each.

Also on sale are security rings/clips/hooks for securing anti-theft coat hangers to the rail - plastic rings are on offer at 16p each and chrome rings 13p each.

Stock up while the offer lasts!

Coat hangers come in a range of styles, colours, designs and are made of a range of different materials, so it’s important you’re informed when purchasing coat hangers wholesale for your hotel, guest house, B&B, or other accommodation-related establishment.

Wooden Coat Hangers

A Wooden Coat Hanger of Wishbone Construction with Traditional Hook

Coat hangers can be made from a range of materials, and we at Formost Products supply wooden coat hangers, brown plastic coat hangers and padded coat hangers. Plastic hangers are a little cheaper, but we recommend wooden coat hangers for that simple exta touch of class. It can also be worthwhile including a couple of padded coat hangers in each room for delicate garments.

Wishbone Construction

When buying coat hangers, we recommend going for the joined, two-part wishbone construction.  Again, this adds a small overhead but the wishbone design is preferred and brings a luxurious feel to your room.  People spend a lot on their clothes and consider their care important.

Trouser Bars, Skirt Clips and Skirt Notches

Coat hangers vary in their design to fulfil different functions.  Some coat hangers feature skirt clips, others a trouser bar for hanging trousers under for example a suit jacket.  At Foremost Products we supply anti-slip coat hangers with rubber inserts in the trouser bar to prevent trousers slipping to the floor that also integrate notches compatible with many skirts and dresses.  They are thus a very versatile choice available in both the traditional and anti-theft styles.

Anti-Theft Coat Hangers with Security Fixing

At Foremost we offer two further styles of coat hanger - coat hangers with traditional hooks for the clothes rail, and anti-theft coat hangers with a small ball in place of the hook which slots into security rings permanently attached to the clothes rail.  This renders the coat hanger useless outside of the hotel environment and thus reduces theft.  We offer both the coat hangers and the security rings for their use.

We hope this has been informative and that you find what you need in our selection of coat hangers - we’re very competitive.