About Us

Last-Minute Planners "Gift Baskets and Gift Ideas" is a small business aimed at expanding throughout the southeast and United States within the next five to ten years in order to compete with major online gift basket and event planning companies.  In order to reach these future goals, Last-Minute Planners "Gift Baskets and Gift Ideas" must initially focus on the mission that drives the vision.  It will take a combination of all employees, owners, founders, and vendors daily reenactment of the vision that Last-Minute Planners "Gift Baskets and Gift Ideas" represents. 

Our vision is to:

1.     Be one of the top five Online Gift Basket and Event Specialists in the Southeast United States.

2.     Reward employees, owners and founders of Last-Minute Planners "Gift Baskets and Gifts" for achieving and surpassing company goals and deriving impressive return on investment each quarter.

3.     Provide quality and consistent customer service, build rapport to encourage repeat business and continually produce the same quality results every event.

4.     Demonstrate leadership through adhering to ethics policies, putting customer’s needs first and giving back to community through charitable contributions.

Mission

As the world around us changes, Last-Minute Planners "Gift Baskets and Gifts" strives to remain constant in its goal in providing superior service at reasonable prices.  Last-Minute Planners "Gift Baskets and Gifts" will listen and access the needs of clients and through effective communication and professionalism deliver consistent results.

But, not all our clients will be external. Last-Minute Planners "Gift Baskets and Gifts" has internal clients to serve. Last-Minute Planners "Gift Baskets and Gifts"  will strive to provide the same predictable and professional working environment to its employees and contracted vendors, justly compensating them for their services. It is also a priority to make a comfortable living wage for its owners, founders, full-time staff, and their families.

Keeping in tune with the needs of the market, utilizing the latest technology and trends, all while ensuring the client receives the individual attention they deserve, is the vision and daily mission of Last-Minute Planners; The Online Gift Basket and Event Specialists.

Company Summary

Founded in 1997 on a part-time basis, Last-Minute Planners "Baskets and Gifts" is a small business designed to meet the needs of the ever changing social world. Sumter, SC is the current home office with plans to expand to branch offices within five years. Last-Minute Planners’  Baskets and Gifts" staff of four, with numerous contract vendors, sell personalized gift baskets online as well as plan social events, and plans to provide internship to local area college students in the art of creating beautiful gift baskets and event planning. Last-Minute Planners "Gift Baskets and Gifts" is invested in the community it resides in.

Last-Minute Planners is, in part, the answer to demands of the social world, on the working family, heavily-burdened office, out-of-town business, Events or special occasion in need of special recognition. As a business, we understand the needs of public and private organizations. As parents and family members, we understand the needs of setting special time apart from other events in our lives. Last-Minute Planners "Gift Baskets and Gifts" strives to accomplish these goals, in Sumter and eventually other areas of the Southeast.

Company Ownership

Last-Minute Planners "Baskets and Gifts"  is established as a partnership with the intention of opening additional branch offices when it is established with the assistance of one or several of the employees invested in the vision of preparing gift baskets and event planning. All aspects of the business will be documented to ensure clients can count on the same results every time.  The specialists will use his or her name as the guarantor of each service. Therefore, the specialists must embody the vision and mission of Last-Minute Planners "Baskets and Gifts".