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Welcome to Ahurei Gifts®, a registered New Zealand trademark and the trading name for The Factory Outlet Limited. We are a 100% New Zealand owned and operated business located in the beautiful town of Warkworth which is a scenic 45 minutes' drive north of Auckland's CBD. We offer fast 1-2 days delivery across New Zealand and FREE click and collect at our Warkworth showroom.

Our business was established back in 2009 by me (Adam) and my partner Sarah with a vision of becoming one of New Zealand's leading gift stores offering premium quality and unique gifts.

Our aim was to create a business that produced and sold gifts that are made to the highest standards and gifts that would be loved and used for years to come, rather than cheap throw away items that we all see far too often in the gift industry and retail stores across New Zealand.

To this day, both me & Sarah still have a very hands-on role at the business creating amazing gifts, answer customer emails, taking phone calls etc. It's highly likely that at some stage through its journey, your gift will interact with one if not both of us.

Over the years our dedication to high quality products and outstanding customer service has resulted in amazing growth for our business with many customers returning and recommending us to friends and family.

Latest News

Warkworth retail store coming soon

We're excited to announce that in April 2024 we will do opening a new retail outlet on Queen street in the heart of Warkworth. This new store will allow you to get hands on with our amazing products and we'll also be offering a lightning fast 1 hour turn around on any personalised gifts.

Click Here to learn more about our new retail store...

Key Events at Ahurei Gifts

In 2009 - The Factory Outlet Limited was born and our first online store went live. In this early phrase of our business we first focused on selling hip flasks, cufflinks, ties and other men's accessories.

In 2015 - After several years of growth and extensive market research in too our current product range and customer requirements, we invested in our first laser marking machine. This machine allowed us to start personalising our products in-house and offer a much faster service and full control over the quality of the end product.

In 2018 - After three successive years of growth the decision was made to bring more time and money investment in to the business with a plan to significantly expanding our machinery, product range, facilities and more to create a leading online gift store specialising in premium quality and personalised gifts for the New Zealand consumer market.

In 2019 - As the business continues to grow, The Factory Outlet Limited made the decision to re-branded and changed its trading name to Ahurei Gifts®, with a view to creating a recognised Kiwi brand. We chose the name Ahurei Gifts® because the word "Ahurei" is a Māori word which relates to things which are unique, special and distinguished, just like the gifts we offer on our website and through our store.

In conjunction with our rebranding was a twelve month investment in new product lines and a major re-development of our website to make the task of personalising your gift/s as easy and user-friendly as possible.

In 2020 - Ahurei Gifts® was Trade Marked in New Zealand and we moved our main operations in to our new 362sqm location in Warkworth which allowed us to keep ahead of our planned growth and ensure we could still offer our amazing products and customer service for many years to come.

With this move we also invested in several new laser engraving machines, sublimation machines, new product lines and more.

In 2021 - We created a showroom at our new Warkworth location where our customers can now visit us and get hands on with our products before they buy.

In addition to our lightning fast 1-2 days delivery across New Zealand, we now offer a one hour turnaround time on all gifts if collecting from our location allowing you still create a stunning gift, even when you've left it until the last minute.

In 2022 - In late 2021 we invested in the latest UV laser machine technology allowing us to further improve on our product range and achieve a higher quality of finish to all glass engraved products. UV lasers are a cold laser source which eliminates all fracturing and rough edge finishes when engraving glass and produces a much higher quality and detailed finish than any other laser options in the market today.

After several months of testing and configuration, in January 2022 our new UV lasers were put in to full time production creating some stunning results that really blown us away and still do today!

2023 Tree Nation In 2023 we also partnered with Tree Nation with a commitment to plant a tree for every predominately wood product sold on our website. Yes you heard correct, if you buy a qualifying product we'll plant a tree in one of Tree Nations projects around the world.

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In 2023 As a business that is constantly looking at ways to improve, we have numerous plans for the coming year and years, including new product ranges, design options, website features and more.

We're expecting a new UV laser engraving machine to land with us in June/July 2023 to increase our production facility to seven lasers ensuring we can keep up with customer demands and business growth through to 2024 and beyond.

In 2024 - In January 2024 we signed a new lease for a retail store opening in April 2024 in the heart of Warkworth at 54 Queen street (currently Caravan Clothing) allowing customers to get hands on with all our gifts and we'll be offering lightning fast 1 hour turn around times on all personalised gifts.

As part of the new retail store we'll also be launching Ahurei Arts which will offer an exciting new range of products featuring 3D Topographical framed maps, Reclaimed Rimu wood gifts, Paua shell inlay items and much more.

Click Here to learn more about our new retail store...

Why Choose Us For Your Gifts?

We pride ourselves not only on supplying amazing quality products and personalised unique gifts, but also an unrivalled customer service to match, with lightning fast production and delivery across New Zealand.

We now boast an extensive range of personalised products and carry out all personalisation of our gifts in-house with our industry leading laser engraving and marking machines. This allows us full control over the personalisation process and ensures our customers receive the best quality products in as fast a time frame as possible.

Our dedication to high quality and unique gifts plus unrivalled customer service has seen year-on-year growth with high volumes of returning customers and positive feedback.

We boast a five star, verified custom rating on Google and Facebook reviews and love to hear multiple positive feedback submission sent directly to us each day from our customers around New Zealand and the world.

Think Green & Sustainable

Over the past 14 years and through our own research we have noticed how the excessive packaging of both products and shipped items is an issue for the environment and we feel that all businesses, including online retailers, need to do more to reduce their impact on the environment.

Living in such a beautiful unspoiled country inspires us to do more and we strive to have as minimal impact on the environment as possible. We now have a sustainability policy in place and have made major in roads to reduce our packaging on products, shipping packaging, wastage and more.

You will also find the vast majority of the products on our website will last for many years to come and are not cheap, throw away items which we see all too often in the gift industry.

To read more about our Sustainability Policy, please click here...

Pay It Forward

Both as a business and personally, we strongly believe in paying it forwards and helping others less fortunate.

We do this in lots of small ways throughout the year including simple things like contributing to great causes in our local community, to larger donations and ongoing support for other organisations.

Auckland Rescue Helicopter Trust

Since 2013 The Factory Outlet Limited (Ahurei Gifts) have been a proud Corporate Supporter of the Auckland Rescue Helicopter Trust and we will continue our support well in to the future with your help.

KidsCan

We are proud to support the awesome work KidsCan do for children living in poverty across New Zealand. For every employee that works at Ahurei Gifts, we set up a monthly support donation for a child living in poverty in New Zealand.

Other Great Causes

Before Covid restrictions on travel on a short trip to Vanuatu we donated school supplies and games to a village school (Pango School) in one of the poorer areas of Port Vila. The headmaster (George Kalo) and all the children were very happy to see us and grateful for their gifts.

We also donate gifts to charitable foundations around New Zealand for them to raffle or give as prizes at events etc.

As a customer on our website you ensure we can continue supporting these wonderful causes and a small percentage of every dollar you spend will go to good causes, so keep spending :)

Westpac helicopter supporters Kids can supporters Meeting the headmaster Vanuatu donation Westpac helicopter supporters

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