Spread gift cards, spread the smile. Gift cards: the unique answer to companies needs

Spread gift cards, spread the smile

Spread gift cards, spread the smile
Gift cards: the unique answer to companies needs.

 

When I started my experience as International Sales Manager for Amilon I thought – like many others, I bet – that what I was going to sell internationally was an innovative way of making gifts for people, on a personal level. Personally I have often received gift certificates for my birthday and I really liked the gift. Through the gift card people can offer their friends and family the opportunity to enjoy cooking classes, a haircut at their favorite barbershop, a relaxing day at a SPA …

However, with time, I learnt that gift cards can be a lot more than that. They are much more than incredible personal gifts. In fact, they are revolutionary business gifts for companies that are looking for new and more practical ways to incentivize and reward employees, partners, and customers.

I got this particular intuition, while talking and negotiating with customers, companies and brands all over the world. All of a sudden, it was clear to me that people from Europe, India, USA and Latin America have a unique and common need: finding an easy and successful way to incentivize employees, or to reward customers for their proven loyalty.

And this simple and successful rewards are digital gift cards.

Gift cards are the perfect reward for every occasion, because they meet every individual taste and preference, allowing people to express themselves by getting what they most need or desire with their corporate benefits or customer loyalty rewards.

This incredible flexibility is why gift cards are so loved across the world: companies from every country appreciate gift cards as benefits, because everyone loves free choice on how to spend her own benefits.

What do I mostly love about working for Amilon? To expand a universal network based on the same need, that is translated into single local habits and cultures, by providing each country with the relevant gift card offer of both local and international brands.

Amilon definitely does it! getting the widest catalogue offer possible, always including local brands. This is also why Monexia expanded their sales team, including local people from all over the world, guaranteeing to customers a global presence that now spans from Italy to Mexico, from Spain to Poland…

Our catalogue of digital gift cards is constantly growing, and this growth is led by what our customers are looking for.

Our catalogue of digital gift cards is constantly growing, and this growth is led by what our customers are looking for. Would you like to incentivize your employees with a grocery brand gift card in Switzerland? Coop is now available for you. Are you looking for a tech incentive for France? Fnac-Darty gift card is ready for download in our catalogue. Fashion gift card for Spain? Visit Monexia and get El Corte Inglés gift cards for your employees now. Supermarket gift cards for Germany? Take them to REWE with Monexia digital gift card.

Do you want to leave the choice to your customers regarding how they prefer to spend their reward in Spanish retailers? Just order Idea Shopping gift card for Spain…

By doing this, I am sure that you will gain a new ability: putting a smile on your customers faces. Because, if gift cards can be wonderful personal gifts, they would be even better corporate rewards.

– Article by Giuseppe Di Rienzo, International Sales Manager

Employee benefits market in Poland

Employee Benefits in Poland Amilon Gift Cards

 Employee benefits market in Poland

Last year, the value of employers’ investments in non-wage benefits in Poland, which help to attract and retain employees, increased to PLN 12 bln, almost by 1 bln year to year. On average, nine out of ten employees in Poland receive non-wage benefits from employers. The growing competition for job candidates means that the number of companies that invest in benefits, as well as the average value of benefits for one employee, is growing.

What types of benefits?

Non-wage benefits are an important element influencing the employee’s decision to take up a job in a given company, as well as a factor building loyalty and motivation for everyday work as well as a positive attitude towards the employer. In Poland, companies most often finance a basic healthcare package, a sport card entitling to unlimited gym entries or cafeteria platforms offering vouchers as well as gift and discount cards for stationary and online stores of well-known global and local brands.

Average benefit value

The development of the benefits market is influenced by the growing average value of expenses per employee, which reached almost PLN 2K (EUR 440) last year. The average was increased by investments of large companies, which account for almost two-thirds of the domestic benefits market. The value of the entire investment portfolio in this area in Poland reached PLN 12 billion in 2019.

Benefits addressers

Employers offer benefits to more and more employees groups’ – not only specialists and managers, but also physical workers. Benefits, including medical care, group insurance, sports card or vouchers to the cinema or shops (cafeteria programs) are so common that for some candidates they are an obvious element of remuneration. Willing to impress candidates, employers are increasingly reaching for less-typical benefits, such as vouchers for legal advisory or personal development.

In the current situation on the labor market, benefits are a justified business investment that helps attract and retain employees. Expenditure on non-wage benefits is growing, among others because their scope is expanding – employers are already investing not only in medical care and gym vouchers, but they are constantly offering new extras such as vouchers and gift cards, thus providing employees with the freedom to choose and match the offer with their lifestyle, habits and tastes.

The increase of the benefits budget is also generated by enlarging the scope of its recipients. Non-wage benefits appear in industries and professional groups in which they were not popular until recently – e.g. in supermarkets chains – and are reaching out to ever lower positions. In the coming years, the benefits market will continue to grow and companies will individualize their offer to better adapt it to the needs of employees.

Amilon in Poland

Amilon has a long-term strategy of not only becoming part of the above trends, but to start complementing or even defining them in the areas where we feel to have a competitive advantage. Such sphere is our offer and its digitalization, thus accelerating the entire process of generating and delivering vouchers, but also the role of a reliable business expert and technology provider for partners in the area of ​​discount cards and vouchers.

Amilon has already started cooperation with the first partners on the Polish market. Currently, the portfolio offered locally includes vouchers and cards of brands such as Amazon, Zalando, Global Hotel Card, MediaMarkt, Empik, Mango, IKEA (here we have exclusive rights in Poland), and we are already finalizing talks with H&M, Decathlon and Flixbus and delicious.pl. We will develop our portfolio in accordance with the market demand for brands sought by our clients.

– Article by Karol Ziółkowski, Business Development Manager Poland, for Amilon Warsaw

The gift that shortens distance

The gift that shortens distance

The gift that shortens distance

– Article by Francesca Romana Raimo, International Merchant Service Director –

 

We live in a world were physical boarders are becoming less and less important, we are used to travel in our free time, and especially moving abroad for academic or work-related reasons has become a worldwide trend.

Whether we made this decision for ourselves or someone close to us made it, our way of living relationships has changed. We all have at least a friend or a relative far away, for which we celebrated birthdays, graduations or even San Valentine’s day via video-call!

But sometimes we still feel that this is not enough, so we spend hours looking on the web for local products or services that do home delivery, translating sites on Google Translate from Dutch, Finnish or who knows what language and often ending up with non-sense sentences and a check out page that requests a local credit card.

This was exactly my personal experience that made me think, is there no other way in 2020 to send a gift, either last minute or planned, to a friend that lives on the other side of Europe? Moreover, is there a gift that will be appreciated even if I don’t have a clue of what my friend could need for her/his-self?

Ok the second question was easy to answer, certainly gift cards were my answer as they have become the new cash that even grammas slip into their grandchildren’s pockets. While for where to find cross boarder gift cards easy to buy and without a local credit card my only answer was: “If I don’t find one, we need to make it!”

This is how the Monexia.eu concept was born, an international gift card e-commerce with the goal of making people feel closer to each other. The entire user experience of the website is thought so that we don’t have to think twice, and we can let those spontaneous gestures take the lead by sending a gift card to our beloved ones.

From a coffee at Starbucks to a fashion accessory on Zalando, from a song on iTunes to a nice plant at IKEA, there are gift cards that match all sorts of wish… can you believe that such nice gifts could really come by emails?

Unfortunately, we cannot prevent ourselves from feeling melancholy or missing someone, but we can share our feelings and demonstrate our love with a small gift, a gift that can shorten distance.