The toplist of the most bizarre corporate gifts

The global Regus survey, which quizzed 26,000 respondents from over 90 countries about the strangest corporate gifts that they have ever received, found bizarre items such as coffin, sandbags, breathalyser, and even antacid medicines.

Corporate gifts are considered a great way of making business people feel appreciated, right? Now, suppose a business associate land at your desk with a gift as a mark of appreciation, and you, of course, unwrap the gift expectantly. What if a shrunken head rolls out of the gift-box or, you discover that the gift is in the form of a neatly wrapped dead cat? There are chances you will scream or perhaps, even throw up.

No, this is not a ploy to make you feel nauseated. You and I may feel absolutely disgusted by such choices of gifts, but a recent research by Luxembourg-based Regus, the world's largest provider of flexible workplaces, says that such items have been actually gifted as corporate hand-outs.

And, if you think that such things only happen in a land far, far away, Indian choices have apparently been no better. How about receiving a dead snake or a live frog as corporate gifts? Or, even if you are not a vegan, how would you react to a business associate presenting you with a jar of camel milk? Now, that would be jarring – isn’t it?

The global Regus survey, which quizzed 26,000 respondents from over 90 countries about the strangest corporate gifts that they have ever received, found bizarre items such as coffin, sandbags, breathalyser, and even antacid medicines.