Neat and Organized
How about gifts for business inclined people like friends who own stores, galleries and boutiques? Most commercial places are people drawn making organization a little bit messy and disorganized. Crowd control is a must to these establishments to keep a neat and organized traffic flow both for buyers and workers. Isn't practical to give considerations on stanchions, velvet rope or barricades as gift suggestion for such purpose? Not everybody can think of such gift idea or suggestion.
I believe if you are close enough to the person who can make use of such things, it's a very clever idea to suggest it.