About Us

Proudly serving Calgary and Area | 1-(877)-49-GIFTS (44387) | (403) 201-5021

Dear Valued Guests,

The Gift Designers will be closed Monday October 9th in observance of Thanksgiving. Please note that any orders placed during this closure will be addressed and processed upon our return, Tuesday October 10th.

We are so very grateful for each of you, our valued guests and wish to extend to you all our warmest sentiments as you reflect and celebrate with treasured friends and loved ones.

Happy Thanksgiving!

-TGD Team

Welcome 2023! We are excited to dive into a new year with our #gogiver community! The successes that we have experienced in 2022 have contributed to our ever-growing desire to serve you better in 2023. We will continue to say that it is truly the ongoing support of our valued guests and community that make it possible for our doors to continue to be open. Our gratitude to you increases everyday and we wish to thank you for allowing us to partner with you in fostering your relationships!

We believe that 2023 will be our best year yet as we endeavour to focus on "Celebrating Relationships". In these ever-changing times, with the best intensions, we can lose sight of the simple fact that humans, people, are innately awesome. The human spirit is kind, loving, generous and longs to connect in deep and meaningful ways. We want to encourage and elevate this concept this year. We will be launching a platform for #gogiverstories which opens the opportunity to connect with each other. Here we will share stories of meaningful connections, acts of kindness and heartwarming moments that we hope will encourage and uplift our community.

So this year, in 2023, we invite you, our #gogiver community, to join us and we celebrate one another and Celebrate Relationships!

Check out our #gogiverstories blog for heart-warming stories fo kindness!

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Since 2002, The Gift Designers has helped both companies and individuals express their sentiments through unique gift services, and we exist to help you make a lasting impression and strengthen your relationships. We provide gifts for personal occasions that express gratitude, love, sympathy, congrats, and more. See our gift selections to find the perfect gift for your recipient.

Our full gift experience takes care of everything! Your gifts are made to order with quality products; includes a card with your personalized message; we coordinate with your recipient for delivery and guarantee that your gift will arrive in perfect form. We also include notification of delivery status along the way.

We, at The Gift Designers, also want to see your business grow through our exclusive corporate gift program. We partner with your business to create meaningful touchpoints for your clients and employees which results in increased loyalty, referrals, and retention.

For more information about The Gift Designers and how we can help you foster relationships, please see our contact page for ways to get in touch with us. We would love to hear from you!

About the Owner

Since participating in a selective entrepreneurship program as a young adult, Noreen Ward wanted to start her own business. In 2002, the oil and gas business she worked for closed its doors, and she leaped at her friend’s proposition to start up a gift basket company. Within two years, Noreen had bought out the whole business.

Each day in her tiny basement suite, she would roll up her bed (a camping mat) to make room for baskets and inventory. In 2004, TGD was officially online and catered to personal and corporate audiences. Eventually, she moved into a larger home, but when she couldn’t squeeze any more baskets into the bathtub :), she moved the company into an industrial warehouse space (2013).

By 2017, Noreen had grown the business to five employees, including her own in-house courier. She continues to expand the business and aims to become an innovative leader in the gifting industry.