Leather-bound journal
Full-grain leather cover with gold foil initials and 192 ivory-cream pages. The kind of journal someone keeps for a decade.
First Light
Employee Welcome Kits & Onboarding Gifts
Make day one unforgettable.
What's inside
Every item is chosen with intention. These are the kinds of pieces that go into a First Light gift, though every order is curated to the brief.
For the memory
The first day at a new company is charged with a particular kind of hope. A First Light kit says, before a single meeting or Slack message, that you were expected here, and that someone thought about you. That is all a welcome gift needs to do. We just help you do it beautifully.
At a glance
PersonalisationRecipient name, designation, company logo, handwritten or printed note card
Typical budget₹2,000 – ₹7,000 per kit
Ideal quantity10 – 500+ per batch
Lead time7 – 10 working days from brief approval
Inside a First Light gift
Employee welcome kits occupy a singular position in the corporate gifting calendar. The moment someone accepts an offer and walks through your door, physically or virtually, they are still making up their minds about you. The onboarding gift is one of the few chances a company has to leave a first impression before the work begins.
At Nishaw, First Light kits are built around one question: what does it feel like to be new here? We speak to HR leaders and founders to understand the company's culture, its warmth, its ambition, the particular way it treats people, and then curate items that quietly communicate all of that. A supple leather journal with the new hire's initials. A brass pen that feels like it was made for a writer. Artisan snacks from producers who care about what they make. A handwritten note in our signature style, on cream paper.
We believe employee welcome gifts in India have long been undersold. Generic branded merchandise, company-logo mugs, cheap tote bags, mass-printed planners, sends exactly the wrong signal on day one. The message isn't 'welcome.' The message is 'we didn't think about you specifically.' First Light is the opposite of that.
Every kit is assembled with personalisation built in. For pan-India rollouts, we manage the logistics of split shipping to multiple cities, so your HR team receives one invoice and no logistical headaches. For startups welcoming their first ten hires, we give the same attention to ten boxes as we would to five hundred.
Typical budgets begin at ₹2,000 per kit and scale with the brief. Lead times are 7–10 working days from brief sign-off. For large-volume orders with multiple SKUs or custom packaging, we recommend a 14-day runway. If you'd like to see sample kits before committing to an order, we'd be glad to arrange that.
First Light
Make day one unforgettable.
Tell us the occasion. We'll take care of everything else.