Red Letter Days is a UK company which pioneered the concept of giving experience day vouchers as gifts and corporate rewards. Also see Experience gifts.
Red Letter Days is jointly owned by BBC2 Dragons' Den entrepreneurs Theo Paphitis and Peter Jones, who purchased the company out of administration in August 2005. They revealed on Alan Carr: Chatty Man that they made the decision to purchase the company whilst under the influence of alcohol. Following the acquisition, Jones and Paphitis made the decision to honour an estimated 135,000 Red Letter Days vouchers, to a value of approximately £17m.
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