What goes inside a corporate gift box matters more than most people realise. You can get the presentation right, nail the message card, choose the occasion perfectly, and then fill the box with products that feel like they came from a service station. The contents are where the impression is either made or lost. Over time, we have learned that one of the surest ways to make a box memorable is to include something locally made that has a real story behind it. For NMW, Billy Stitch gin is one of those inclusions that consistently gets a reaction when the lid comes off.

What makes Billy Stitch different

Billy Stitch Distillery launched in 2023, born out of a genuine love for craft spirits rather than a commercial calculation. The distillery is run by Dave and Steph, a husband and wife team based in Kwinana Beach, south of Perth, with backgrounds in the Australian Defence Force and teaching. What started as a passion project fuelled by curiosity and late-night experimenting has grown into a multi-award-winning operation, including Double Gold and Best of Class at the 2025 Asia World Spirit Competition.

Billy Stitch Barrel Aged Gin, a Western Australian small-batch gin, shown with its 2025 Asia World Spirit Competition Double Gold and Best of Class medals — Double Gold and Best of Class at the 2025 Asia World Spirit Competition. The awards are not why we include it, but they are why we are comfortable putting it in front of someone else's clients.

The gin is small-batch and handcrafted, distilled and bottled at 50% ABV, a strength that reflects the product's character rather than any desire to be understated. Bold botanicals, a smooth and complex flavour profile, and bottles that are as distinctive to look at as they are to drink from. The brand describes itself as "unapologetically full of life," and the product earns that description.

Why it works so well in a corporate gift box

Three things make Billy Stitch a strong corporate gift box inclusion, and they compound each other.

Visual impact

The bottles are distinctive: bold, confident, and immediately recognisable as something different from a supermarket shelf. When a gift box opens and a Billy Stitch bottle is the first thing a recipient sees, it sets the tone for everything else inside. That first impression matters in corporate gifting, and Billy Stitch earns it.

Billy Stitch Tuckshop Garden Gin made with Geraldton wax, yuzu and lemon thyme, a Western Australian gin included in No Matter What Gift Box corporate gift boxes — The Tuckshop Garden Gin, a Margaret River collaboration distilled with Geraldton wax, yuzu and lemon thyme. This is the bottle that went into the Atlas Fuel boxes.

WA provenance

Locally made WA products carry a different weight to mass-market alternatives, particularly for Perth recipients. There is something fitting about a gift made in the same city, by people who care about the craft, arriving as a thank you from a local business. It feels chosen rather than sourced, which is exactly the impression NMW is always trying to leave.

Quality NMW can stand behind

We do not include products in our gift boxes because they are available or convenient. We include them because we would be comfortable giving them to someone whose opinion we value. Billy Stitch clears that bar comfortably: the awards are there, but more importantly, the product speaks for itself.

When you include a product that has a genuine story and a distinctive presence, it does part of the gifting work for you.

The Atlas Fuel order

One of NMW's first significant corporate orders came from Atlas Fuel, a Perth business that commissioned around 25 gift boxes for their clients and team. Billy Stitch gin was one of the key inclusions, and it turned out to be one of the things that stuck.

The feedback from recipients was warm across the board, but the gin came up in conversation specifically. People mentioned it by name. They looked up the brand. Some went on to order it for themselves. For a product included in a corporate gift box, that kind of response is rare, and it illustrated something Tash has come back to many times since: when you include a product that has a genuine story and a distinctive presence, it does part of the gifting work for you.

The Atlas Fuel boxes also gave Tash a clear sense of what a well-curated corporate gift box can do for a business. The client felt the quality in every detail: the gin, the other WA-made inclusions, the presentation, the message cards. It was the kind of order that set the standard for how NMW approaches corporate gifting from that point forward.

What this means for corporate gifting

The Billy Stitch example illustrates something broader about locally sourced products in corporate gift boxes. A well-made WA gin does not just taste good. It gives the recipient something to talk about, look up, and remember. It reflects the thoughtfulness of the person who sent it, because it signals that a real choice was made rather than a default one.

For Perth businesses gifting to Perth clients, there is also something specifically fitting about a product made here. It reinforces a shared sense of place that mass-market alternatives cannot replicate, and it supports the kind of local makers and small businesses that give Perth its character.

At NMW, the commitment to locally sourced WA artisan products is not a marketing line. It is a practical expression of what we think makes a corporate gift box worth receiving. If you want to see how that philosophy translates into gift boxes built for Perth businesses, Corporate Gift Boxes Perth is a good place to start. And if the conscious gifting angle matters to your business, Sustainable Corporate Gifts covers how NMW approaches gifting with purpose.

We are genuinely proud to include Billy Stitch in NMW corporate gift boxes, and grateful for what it brings to the gifting experience.