Funskool continues to be in the forefront of developing dynamic games for creative and alert children keeping pace with today’s competitive world. Their products - ranging from traditional to high-tech - are developed keeping the evolving needs of children and changing times in mind. 

In the next few blogs, we shall be checking some interesting games across broad themes. They also have on offer tantalizing travel games and superb strategy games for those who ‘have or claim to have a greater percentage of the gray matter, or for those aspiring to increase that.’

These games are a series of intriguing and exciting ideas that sure will enrich and sharpen your thinking process. On the other hand, their series of travel games ensure that you do not miss out on fun quotient when going on a picnic or a vacation with your family, friends or office colleagues.

Funskool’s fun-filled travel games are compact to carry. They are thoughtfully designed and come with self-contained storage trays, making them absolutely convenient. Plus they have quick set-up facilities. Just open them up and enter a world of boundless fun!

Here are some interesting games on offer from the leading toymaker:

Snakes & Ladders: A game that’s been around for centuries! Land on a ladder to climb, on a lippery snake and oops it’s downhill all the way. Find out who makes it first!

Tr. game stay alive: It’s all about staying alive! A subtle game that needs an alert mind and thoughts that keep racing!

Game of games: For those who can never be satisfied with one game here are 14 games in 1! Action strategy words and chance come together on a single board. 14 times the fun!

Globetrotters’ game: Jet set around the world answering questions on each region. A Trivial Pursuit game that takes you at break-neck speed across continents!

Monopoly deal card game: The fast-paced, addictive card game where your luck can change in the play of a card. 
(Information and image courtesy: Funskool)

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Easter is the historic day when Jesus came back to our land from the grave to vindicate his teachings and justify to the Romans the ideologies handed down to us. Those who opted to follow this ideology remember this occasion as one, which signals the end of Lent - a period of abstinence from material pleasures when one returns to the old adage of piety.

Easter is a great opportunity for a get-together and gifts! The first thing that strikes one’s mind when you are wished Happy Easter is a toss-up between Easter Eggs and Easter Bunny. Home-made Easter Eggs can be packaged prettily and presented to office colleagues wrapped in cute baskets.

Easter Eggs are wonderfully chocolate-y with a colorful (gold being the main color) surface. Arranged well they make for great decorative items for the desk. If your colleague is married, gift enough eggs for everybody.

Rope everybody else in the office and make a gift hamper for the boss. Make it complete with bunnies (either the soft toy variety or the edible variety), large eggs in a suitably big basket, with a dashing bow.

Keep the right colors and patterns in mind. Opt for a deep color for the bow and for the wrapping material – pick stripes and checks and muted colors.

Opt for an Easter hamper – a beautiful basket, two or three dozen eggs, depending on the number of people in office, confetti, popcorn, sponge balls, or your choice of filling. Get a small gift each for your colleagues and of course, the Easter Bunny. Order a bunny cake, too.

There are options in form of Le Meridien and Patchi for Easter Bunny! Almost every patisserie and cake shop will have its fair share of Easter goodies to select from for every budget.

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In the previous posting, we introduced some interesting quotes on gifting. Here are some more thoughts on gifting and what gift can be apart from just giving in material terms.

‘May Peace be your gift and your blessing all year through!’ - Anonymous

’To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving!’ - Max Beerbohm

’Pleasure is spread through the earth in stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.’ - William Wordsworth

‘Feeling gratitude & not expressing it is like wrapping a present but not giving it.’ -  William A. Ward

’God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say, thank you?’  - William A. Ward

‘Yesterday is history.  Tomorrow is a mystery.  And today?  Today is a gift.  That’s why we call it the present.’ - Babatunde Olatunji

 ‘What we are is God’s gift to us. What we become is our gift to God!’ - Eleanor Powell
’God’s gifts put man’s best dreams to shame!’ - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

’God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man’s hands.’ - Rabindranath Tagore

’You can give without loving, but can never love without giving.’ – Anonymous

‘Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.’ -  Jean Anouilh

‘I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.’ - Ralph Waldo Emerson

‘It is not the size of the gift that matters but the size of the heart, which gives it!’ - Quotation in ‘The Angels’ Little Instruction Book’ by Eileen Elias Freeman

‘Each day comes bearing its own gifts, so untie the ribbons.’ - Ruth Ann Schabacker

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Gifts give a great joy, it goes without saying. They convey your emotions to the receiver, who in turn, appreciates your sentiments. Gifts enhance relations and strengthen bonds of love. But gifts also serve a practical purpose when it comes to financial planning. You may wish to know. Let me bring to your notice that gifts can serve as a simple albeit very effective tax planning tool.

The provisions of Section 56, relating to tax on gifts, along with the basic exemption limit provisions to make your income is tax-free are applied simultaneously, to ensure tax-free income.

An individual falling in a higher tax bracket, can manage to cut down on the tax liability and increase his or her capital into tax-free income through gifts. This is essentially made possible by tax planners.

The method they follow is to make a person give gifts from post-tax capital to the parents and major children, who mostly are non-taxpayers. To double the benefit, when the recipients of these gifts invest the same, the family can earn more tax-free income.

Of course, there are certain issues, precautions and clarifications that you need to seek from your tax consultant who will address all these aspects so that you are able to put this gainful tax planning strategy through gifting into practice.

In a nutshell, gifts given to your parents and children (above 18) will not invite clubbing provisions. We shall learn about the finer aspects of tax planning and gifting in the subsequent blogs.

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A gift that you plan to give to your friend or someone you know closely for years needs to reflect the person’s attitude and tastes. It should go with the person’s lifestyle and style quotient.

Friends who have been known each other from childhood or college days are usually aware of each other’s habits and choices so getting a useful, meaningful gift on a special occasion should not prove to be a difficult task. We are sure you will thoroughly enjoy the process of selecting and buying a gift with the following ideas.

You can go for a deftly designed, classic candle stand crafted out of wrought iron. Accentuate it with scented candles. To add a mystical touch to the home décor and ambience, they include fragrances that create a soothing effect.

Jewelry will invariably work with a female friend! Rings, earrings, bracelets, gold-plated watches; there is no dearth of choice. Your friend will be fascinated by its charm and shine. Apart from gold jewelry, silver jewelry can be considered, especially if your budget is constrained. Silver jewelry can be equally crafty and creative. Go for an elegant pendant, a handsome hair ornament, an opulent choker. Traditional, attractively colored pearls set in sterling silver will make a Jewelry make an exquisite, glittering gift! Even men’s jewelry is now getting popular. New uber-cool men now flaunt to love accessories, and if your friend is one of them, he would love receiving a glittering gold creation!

Many financial institutions and banks like ICICI have on offer Pure Gold for sale. ICICI is advertising its Pure gold as a perfect gift. It is of 24 Karat (99.99% purity). You can buy it through their branch by following some simple steps. Gold is sold in the form of round-shaped coins for 2.5,5 and 8g. For 20g and 50g, gold is sold in the form of rectangular shaped bars. For 2.5g, it is also available in heart-shaped coins.

If you want to gift your sibling a gold coin, you can get more details here
http://www.icicibank.com/pfsuser/icicibank/investments/puregold/faq.htm#5

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Nearly eight in 10 Indians (77%) prefer Clothes, Sweets (including chocolates- 69 %) and Books (49%) as their preferred gifting items. Importantly, more than half of the people surveyed indicated they would shop online.

Following are the broad findings of a survey conducted by Nielsen India on gifting patterns research panel.

• Differences are there across different age groups in terms of gifting items, budgets and shopping channels.

• Sweets, Clothes and Books are universally popular, but more so with the mature group aged 45 and above

• The younger crowd (15-24 years) prefers to gift technology gadgets such as mobile phones and MP3 players.

• Holidays (travel and accommodation), travel tickets and tickets to amusement parks are popular new-age gift ideas.

• About 20 percent would like to give wine as a gift.

• More than half of the people surveyed indicated they would shop online.

According to N. S. Muthukumaran, Director, Online Panel, the Nielsen Company, India, the technology that has entered our lives in the last 10 years is deeply affecting young people in their twenties who have grown up with it. He says, “To many, it is cool to be seen with the latest model of phone or music system and giving one as a present is in the same league, albeit a costly option for these young folks.”

Look for more findings of the survey indicating the habits and beliefs of Indians regarding gifting in the next blog posts…

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Gifts with something inscribed, something engraved or a scrapbook can add a personal touch.

Gifts with something inscribed

Books can indeed be a thoughtful and very special gift, but inscriptions carry them to a whole new level of intimacy. Buy your buddy a new book of fiction (need not be romantic) that she or he has been always talking about and is craving to read. It can also be his or her favorite classic, a journal, or a coffee-table book, the subject matter does matter, but your inscription does make it special.

Something engraved

An obvious gift may not be on its own such an innovative idea, but there’s an easy method to take it even the simplest and commonest of gifts into an entirely ultimate romantic orbit by engraving! By branding a cell phone, bracelet or even a simple key chain with your feelings and emotions or simply with your initials, or a memorable day, you can send the message in a subtle way.

A personal scrapbook

Don’t think that we are suggesting you simply cut & paste some pictures into a scrapbook but this is definitely the wonderful way of preserving and rekindling romantic memories. It’s rather about as near to any home-made gift and isn’t it nice narrating the story of your romance or friendship with a personal scrapbook as gift.

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In every organisation, there is a hierarchy of executives at different levels. To maintain a communication channel with all of them directly is not possible at most times. However, it is neccessary for us to maintain our communication with as many people as possible or atleast keep the word that the relationship exists between two people.

Corporate gifting enables you to maintain those communication channels and also keep them open all the time. Sometimes, we have not been in touch with a couple of colleagues for a long time and we require to connect with them again. We can just send them a card that wishes them well or expresses some words of thanks along with a small gift that they would love. Naturally, the gift bought shouldnt be so expensive as you must not make an impression that you are gifting them because you need them for some reason/purpose you wish to accomplish. This simple practice can be done just to keep ones relationship fresh and alive, and keep remain connected somehow with more number of people at the same time you havent been for a long long time.

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Giving corporate gifts is the perfect way to encourage your employees to work hard and to remain loyal to your company. After all, if you treat people well and offer them gifts and incentives for their hard work, then why would they want to be anywhere else?

They are also a great way to encourage customers to remain loyal to your company and your brand of product or service.

The down side to offering incentives is the cost. Although these kinds of corporate gifts tend to pay for themselves over time in terms of loyalty earned and extra hard work on the parts of your employees, they can still be expensive to begin giving out

When we talk of cost involved, it is not essential that every corporate gift handed out has to be very expensive or fancy. Good corporate gifts can be purchased from a number of sites online which offer variety of gifts ranging from desk clocks, mouse mats to golf sets, safari trips etc. And very often, discounts can also be availed if bulk orders are made.

I wouldn’t deny that “Personalization is the key to effective corporate gift giving.” But personalization can be implemented when it comes to the really important gifts or the really big moments.

So if you are trying to entice your new client or mould your difficult boss in your favor or gift the person that was just hired to run your business for you, you can do so by giving them unique gifts.

You can find sites that offer exclusive and personalized corporate gifts that you want to give, and they do so at prices that wont drive you to bankruptcy without compromising with the quality of the gift

Spending carefully on corporate gifts could mean a world of difference to how well your business operates in the future, with the best employees remaining steadfastly beside you and your customers remaining loyal, even when the market gets a little competitive.

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From Bollywood stars like Dimple Kapadia Mr. Talat Aziz (Renowned Gazal Singer), Ms. Poonam Dhilon, Ms Moon Moon Sen, Ms. Arti Surendranath (Former Model, Bollywood Actor & Socialite)
To Corporates like - Mr. Harsh Goenka (Chairman RPG Enterprises Ltd.), Mrs. Neeta Ambani (Reliance Industries Group), Mr. Ashwini Kaka (CEO Thomas Cook), Mrs. Kamini Banga (Management Consultant), Mr. Vijay Taparia (Managing Director Supreme Industries) Mr. Sameer Chinoy (Chinoy Randive & Associates),

these are the people who have attended The Giftex Exhibition. Well the list is just never ending and keeps growing every year, i wonder who would be coming this year… any gusses?

A gift is the most effective way to say thank you, be it to a customer, supplier, employee or a potential client. After all each has a role to play in the company’s productivity, sales and profits.

Corporate Gifts are not just limited to festivals, but have in the recent past found their way into AGM’s, product and service launches, dealers’ meets and many other occasions.

Personalized gifts strengthen customer relations and enhance the image of the company. They not only serve as a sign of goodwill but also as a constant reminder of the giver.

Judging from the track record, GIFTEX’07 promises to be another success and a milestone event of the industry in the next year.

All eyes are focused on Nehru Centre in Mumbai ( Bombay ) India the venue of the GIFTEX exhibition centre to see its palatial marble structure supported by huge pillars, once again presenting GIFTEX for the twentieth year consecutively at the very same venue.

As the number of vehicles in the parking lot are swelling to enormous proportions leaving the latecomers helpless to find a single slot to park their cars, the exhibition halls are buzzing with commercial activity where corporate visitors can be seen going from booth to booth in their endeavor to locate their 2007 choice of gifts for their customers.

Seen amongst the through are Distributors, Agents and Dealers making their headway to corner the manufacturers with a view to representing them in outstation places as well as in Mumbai. The international touch was palpable at the exhibition centre, with foreign visitors from various countries – Sri Lanka, Spain, U.A.E., Sultanate of Oman, Saudi Arabia, Canada, Nepal, Belgium, Hong Kong< Malaysia, U.S.A. seen circulating in the exhibition halls to catch a glimpse of their latest choice.

Gifts are in the air, as the ambience gives the concept of Corporate Gifting a boost to project the products of manufactures of a variety of commodities enabling them to bag enquiries and orders.

A variety of jute consumer product will enrich the Giftex Exhibition this year with innumerable articles of interest to buyers, ranging from Wall Hangings and Bags to ornaments and other novelties as well.

Promoted by the jute manufactures Development Council and National Centre for Jute Diversification, Ministry of Textiles, Govt. of India, that display will undoubtedly project attractive designs and colors at the forthcoming a how.

So Whats New at GIFTEX?To add more luster tom the event, the entries of the Handmade Paper Units will contribute paper products of utility in packaging and stationery. The support of Khadi and Village Industries commission has undoubtedly been most helpful.

The introduction of the Handicraft units and Artists this year, opens a new angle of opportunity to Corporate Buyers and Traders alike to buy unique handcrafted items from this section of exhibitions. These contribution are due to unstinted cooperation of the west Bengal state Export promotion Society.(Govt of West Bengal). you can still catch all the action. see the details below

Venue - Nehru Centre in Mumbai - Worli ( Bombay )

Date - 19th To 23rd Sept 07

Time - 10.00 a.m. - 7.00 p.m

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