9 Creative Deal Toy Ideas to Celebrate Success

March 5, 2025 by David Parry

Coming up with creative deal toy ideas can be a chore for bankers Especially when they’re faced with the same predictable, stock design suggestions. Fortunately, there are a number of imaginative–though commonly overlooked— design...

Investment Banking Deal Toys for Complex Financial Transactions

March 3, 2025 by David Parry

Investment banking deal toys seldom reflect the complexity of their underlying transactions. Take, for instance, the deal toy commemorating Dell’s landmark acquisition of EMC. The $67 billion transaction, the largest tech deal in history at the...

Budget-Friendly Tips for Ordering Finance Awards

February 7, 2025 by David Parry

Settling on an appropriate budget for commemorating a financial transaction isn't always so straightforward. Budgets for finance awards or tombstones are typically a function of the size of the deal. For the most part, the larger the deal, the...

Employee Awards: How to Maximize Their Impact and Perceived Value

January 28, 2025 by David Parry

  It’s understandable that employee awards and recognition programs might have taken on added significance during the past several years. After all, employee engagement is a very real and immediate workplace challenge. A recent...

How to Make Tombstone Awards More Memorable

January 23, 2025 by David Parry

Here are a couple of creative sparks for distinctive tombstone award designs Tombstone awards tend to have their own built-in cachet and perceived value. Even the most conventional tombstones have tremendous significance for recipients---for the...

Corporate Award Ideas: 5 Unique, Inspired Examples

January 22, 2025 by David Parry

Most corporate award ideas are anything but inspired. Which isn't surprising. A quick online search will show that corporate awards tend to cluster around two very different and distinct categories. On one hand, you're likely to see ready-made,...

Lucite Vs. Acrylic: The Differences And Uses Of Both

January 7, 2025 by David Parry

Acrylic: it's one of those words that's become part of everyday life. Having said that, most of us would probably struggle to define exactly what it is. We just know what it looks like. Lucite is a term that probably isn't as familiar. What...

Unique Code Name-Inspired Deal Toys for Your Next Big Deal

December 26, 2024 by David Parry

Code names offer a rich, and too often neglected, source of deal toy ideas. Code names tend to provide ready-made design ideas because they also tend to be both colorful and evocative. The code names for high-profile deals have included, for...

3D Crystal Etching: A Complete Guide for Deal Toys & Awards

December 12, 2024 by David Parry

3D crystal etching: it's an effect that you may not be familiar with---at least by name. And to the extent you might already be familiar with the technique, you may not have liked what you've seen. Most people associate this type of internal...