Amazing after such a warm autumn – where was the October snow that we were promised?! – to think that only 7 weeks on Sunday is Christmas Day…
I reckon that quite a few of our customers have also just realised how close Christmas is as the ‘phone has started ringing off the hook! All we need is Slade to start playing on the radio and the Iceland adverts to appear on TV and the full onslaught will be with us!
So this year, more and more of Park Lane Champagne’s customers are choosing to order online; we have a newly revamped range of hampers (retaining all the hallmarks of our previous Frisky Partridge collection), a larger selection of ports (5 types) and whiskies (5 types), in addition to a cheeky bordeaux wine offer AND a burgundy wine offer, all to compliment the excellent champagnes (personalised champagne, house champagne or Grande Marque champagne), house wines and prosecco!
Don’t want to create an essay but we are excited about all that is going on. New suppliers are fuelling our stampede forward and relevant information can be found in the our producers section of the website. As you would expect, we choose suppliers carefully on a variety of criteria, including quality, uniqueness, service, sustainability and value. Note that for us, value is measured in many ways other than just the price and one of the things we really want is products that are not readily available on the high street. Artisan but established; great quality but affordable with good continuity of supply.
So here it is, whether you want a single bottle of personalised champagne, a large corporate order or a unique festive hamper, please do contact us and we will be delighted to be of service.
Our last day for regular orders with guaranteed delivery before Christmas – assuming snow does not come and interrupt things – is Tuesday 20th December 2011. However, and as always, the sooner you can get us started, the better for us!
And just to round off, we hope Old St Nick doesn’t dig into too many of the Park Lane Champagne pressies before he squeezes down your chimney on the 24th and lapses into this kind of sherry-fuelled chaos…
It is hard to believe that the last finger to keyboard jotting was Tom’s insight back in August; here we are nearly two months on and what an eleven weeks it has been; no need to bore one and all but the roller-coaster is definitely to be avoided if at all possible!
now back at 
A large single client project has been successfully completed, although the hand-shifting of 1,100 bottles from the loading bay into the Great Hall at Grosvenor House in the scorching September heat caused James and I to suffer! The complex packing and distribution of 400 individual shipments was completed on time, on budget and without a single error – which is very pleasing although service-second-to-none has always been a key Park Lane Champagne ethos.
And the World waits to see if Sarkozy and Merkel can pull off enough of a plan to give the €uro and the Eurozone a much needed breathing space and hopefully save us all from the catastrophe we have been told awaits. I think the body language needs brushing up a little and perhaps the rhetoric as well if the helpful advice from across the Channel which Cameron and Osborne have been dispensing has caused such Sarkozy foot stamping – or maybe that is new father syndrome?
Working alongside Andy and Nick, James, Al and the warehouse team, life at Park Lane is not only a steep learning curve but a great experience as well. Personalised champagne is what we are all about, from a single bottle for an individual customer to over 6,000 bottles for a major UK company – it’s all in the mix! So we get on with designing banners and customer labels, building bespoke landing pages and client micro-sites, geting involved with order processing, and every day is different. Coming fresh out of my first year at university where I am studying web
design, Nick our lead technology bod has definitely helped me grow my knowledge in the design field. As for the champagne side of things, this is something that has grown and grown on me since being here and now it’s safe to say I’m a fellow champagne drinker myself – and of course I organised a personalised champagne bottle for my mum’s 44th with a custom label…
ere at Park Lane the working environment is fun and relaxed, whilst making sure everyone gets the jobs done. Coffee is a must first thing in the morning and luckily we have a great coffee maker, James, on hand when we need one! Whilst absorbing that caffeine fix, Andy and I liaise with each other on what web development jobs need to be done in the day. 
After this it’s work, work, work until the baguette bar in town is shouting out for me at lunch time; we all love a tasty baguette here (especially a tuna torpedo) when the boys’ vigorous weight loss regime permits – James, Al and London to Brighton bike rides!
Throughout my time here our web presence is ever growing, leading us to exciting new levels. Whilst James and Alastair continue to sell, sell, sell, our work remains in the background pushing our web presence higher and higher and constantly evolving our systems and processes so that everything runs smoothly. Amazing to think that Park Lane’s ecommerce web presence is only two years old and in that time we have grown to over 4,000 visitors per month. It will be even more exciting when we top 40,000 per month and especially to think we all laid the early foundations to allow that growth.
On arrival back after a great weekend I managed to find a little space for some cheese and biscuits and a draft of champagne! All that activity and the requirement to be substantially tee-total (driving) meant I certainly deserved it.
Whether it happens in a Church, a Registry Office or a beach in Bali, the wedding day is a personal nirvana. The hopes of the future, of the happy couple and their families are expressed in the magic of the day and it is no wonder that champagne plays such an important part in so many weddings.
We have had customers include photos, logos, entwined initials, design complete labels, specify pantone colour references, send an item of cloth for colour matching, and more… Traditional weddings are in the majority, but we are delighted to assist for the odd civil partnership as well – including one this morning – so good luck to you all!
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