Corporate gifts are tricky to get right at scale.
You need something that looks expensive without actually being expensive. Something that works for a VP and a new hire equally. Something with enough surface area to brand properly without looking like a billboard. And you need 50 of them, or 100, or 200 — all looking identical — by a date that’s usually closer than it should be.
That’s a specific problem. Not every supplier can handle it.
Why Cutting Boards
Most corporate gifts end up in a pile somewhere. Another branded tumbler. Another golf umbrella. Another thing that gets used once at a company event and then shoved in a closet.
A hardwood cutting board goes home and stays in the kitchen. On the counter, not in a drawer. Gets used at dinner, pulled out when there’s company, sits there on a Tuesday morning when someone’s making breakfast. Your logo is just there. Every day. In their house.
That’s not nothing.
Wood also reads as premium in a way that’s hard to fake with other materials. Pick up a solid walnut board and you just know it cost something — even when it didn’t cost as much as it feels like it did. That gap between perceived value and actual cost is exactly what makes it work for gifting programs running on a real budget.
How We Work
Been at this since 2016. A good chunk of what we do is corporate — companies that need clean, consistent boards in volume without a complicated process to get there.
Canadian hardwood in maple, cherry, and walnut. All three engrave well which is how most corporate buyers brand their boards — logo comes out sharp and clean. Maple gives you the best contrast. Walnut looks the most premium out of the box. Cherry is somewhere in between, warmer looking, a bit less common.
Minimum is 24 boards per SKU. Most corporate orders are bigger than that and pricing improves as quantity goes up. If you’re moving serious volume reach out and we’ll talk numbers directly.
Engraving we don’t do in-house but we work with people who handle corporate orders regularly and know what they’re doing. We can make the introduction, or you use your own vendor, no problem either way.
Shipping within a few business days. Hard deadline for a conference or holiday program — tell us upfront. We’ll be straight with you about what’s realistic.
Which Wood
Depends on your budget and honestly your brand personality a little bit too.
Maple is where most corporate orders land and for good reason. Clean, neutral, professional. Works with any logo, any industry, any recipient list. Hard to go wrong with it.
Walnut is for when the gift needs to feel like a real investment. Dark, heavy, impressive when someone pulls it out of the box. Senior client gifts, high-end holiday programs, situations where cheap-looking isn’t an option — walnut fits all of that. Nobody picks one up and wonders if it was expensive.
Cherry gets overlooked for corporate gifting and it probably shouldn’t. Warm tone, ages nicely, less common than maple so it actually stands out when someone sees it. Same professional look, just a bit more character. Worth bringing up if your brand leans that direction.
Have a look at the full wood species page before you lock anything in — easier to compare side by side than guessing from a description.
Getting Started
Tell us quantities, wood preference, and your deadline. We’ll confirm stock and get back to you quickly.