The Gift Club Show

Our founder, Hadie, chats to Graham Lycett, Founder of Green Gift Cards, about the wider issues of brands taking on responsibility, recycling and the magnitude of waste humans create. Graham says, “We as consumers can only buy what is put in front of us – we are too busy or lazy to hunt out greener alternatives, we want the convenience without the guilt. So it's the brands and retailers burden to present those alternatives to us. They also need to look at the life cycle cost both monetarily and from an environmental impact point of view – we need a brand to carry out the exercise to determine if a JIT model is better all-round than the current high volume procurement model. And as consumers, if we want to affect the wider greener issues we need to waste less – the statistics for unwanted Christmas gifts of which more than 6% make it to landfill is frightening.”

Our Founder, Hadie, chats to Nik, Co-Founder of SEE Rewards about how local companies must start to adopt an 'all in it together' social employment attitude to extend the engagement of employees and customers.

Our Founder, Hadie, interviews Maddy Alexander-Grout, the brains behind the business app, My VIP Rewards, that supports SME's with their business ecosystem from rewarding their employees, advertising, customer loyalty and more….

The Gift Club have been following the launch of the new Australian Gift and Prepaid Association for a while now and we are proud to share a Q&A with Dhun Karai, Partner Financial Advisory at Grant Thornton, Australia who is spearheading the creation and delivery of the new trade association for the Australian market.

Lia is a Loyalty and Data-Driven Marketing Expert Spanning 20 Years of Experience in the Retail and Financial Services Industries Our Founder, Hadie, also chats to Lia about how retailers should be leveraging their data to drive consumer behaviour and the innovative ways grocery stores should prepare to use data, knowing that consumer behaviour is now less predictable

There is a huge gap in the corporate space in terms of understanding how we should engage and empower employees to take care of their own mental health and wellbeing to prevent issues from occurring. Our founder, Hadie, has the pleasure in meeting Kathy Heath, Founder and Director of Healthy Minds Club, a brand new positive mental health company dedicated to empowering its customers to prevent mental health issues & to truly thrive.

Our Founder, Hadie, meet Steve Hoban, CEO of Suresite who shared his learnings and experience of launching the first loyalty program in Africa It's a great interview for the ears of #retailers looking to implement their own '#loyaltyprograms. There are some fabulous tips and advice built on solid experience when he led the marketing teams at

Our Founder, Hadie Perkas, chats to Ben Rachel, Founder of Soul, a London based customer engagement agency who take a deep dive into consumer data psychology and the sub conscious drivers of consumer behaviour. They go right under the skin of how retailers can strengthen their engagement and improve loyalty by getting a full understanding of their customers' need states. It's a fascinating listen!

Our Founder, Hadie Perkas, chats to Gaetano Giannetto, Founder of long standing Epipoli, an Italian based prepaid payment network agency where they chat about the European gift card market, innovation and how retailers can improve their customer engagement”.

We meet Jason Caine, Director – Prepaid & Guest Experience Programs at Oxford Properties Group. Who tells us the positive story of how he worked with his team & partners through Covid to ‘get stuff done' and introduce a digital program in 5 months.

Work where you want, when you want with unlimited holidays. Will Stewart, CEO and Founder of The Point. 1888 is a small business owner who has built a business on purpose, engaging the best talent through an ‘ultra-flexible' working contract and defining life/work balance.

From a retailer's view, the Italian Gift Card Market is evolving digitally and partnerships are paramount

tcc are the market leading loyalty solutions provider and we meet Simon Hay, CEO to discuss how tcc are leading the way on innovation to make measurable differences to both businesses & shoppers' lives.

There is a psychological contract between employee and employer but can workplace tech or hinder this contract and what about rewarding those in a very tech world?

In our latest soap box interview, Chris talks about the emotional side of Christmas rewarding. Delving into statistics from Blackhawk Network's brand new research, Chris and Hadie discuss the importance of gift cards this Christmas. They then finish with some advice for how employers should continue to reward, despite the ongoing pandemic.

Benita is the Gift Card Program Manager at Petsmart in Arizona, US and we chat about the three D's - Dogs, Design and Distance-Giving Gift Cards!

Hadie talks to Mervyn about how HR tech could or couldn't replace managers, how software can affect the retention of employees and what he predicts will be 'the' tech that work places will be relying on by 2030.

What are HR leaders looking for in a market leading employee reward platform and what are the standard workplace technologies we will be seeing by 2030. An interview with HR Tech & Transformational HR Expert, Perry Timms

With 24 years at multi-million pound retailer, Ted Baker, Craig has lots to say about how retailers can amplify their digital offering, data vs humans and emotional loyalty technology.

Employment Lawyer & Employee Relations expert, Zameer Nazarali, from Simplify ER Group, talks to us about how to create a supercharged, engaged workforce through leadership mind-set and reward & recognition

Our Founder, Hadie Perkas, chats to Troy Veron, Senior Manager, Cards & Payment Advisory at Grant Thornton, Australia about the present and future of physical and digital gift cards and also about the launch of the brand new The Australian Gift & Prepaid Association

Our founder, Hadie Perkas, speaks to the upbeat Adam Posner, loyalty program specialist from Australia about love & loyalty and if marketing technology is a good tool to drive emotional loyalty. He also chats to us about his yearly, 92 page loyalty report "For Love or Money"

Bindu is a loyalty professional from Emirates with Skywards and Collinson Group. She shares her thoughts on what retailers should now be doing to engage their online customers, social communities and the differences between customer behaviour from around the world.

John Frith, Chief People Officer at Checkatrade talks to our Founder, Hadie Perkas, about keeping tabs on employee engagement & reward & recognition in a Covid world. Visit www.thegiftclubnews.com for more news, blogs, articles and thoughts on gift cards, loyalty, rewards and engagement from around the world