Creative Deal Toy Ideas: 7 Frequently Overlooked Sources of Inspiration

June 1, 2022 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 suggestions. Fortunately, there are a number of imaginative–though commonly overlooked— design...

5 Ideas for “Green” and Sustainability-Themed Deal Toys

March 6, 2023 by David Parry

Sustainability isn't exactly a new focus, either for financial transactions themselves or for the deal toys that commemorate them. After all, sustainability has been a corporate tenet for decades now, and become the centerpiece of any number of...

The Crucial Employee Awards Opportunity You’re Probably Missing

February 22, 2023 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 Harvard Business...

Who Gets Custom Deal Toys (and What Exactly are They For?)

February 8, 2023 by David Parry

If you're not in the financial industry, there's a good chance you've never even heard of deal toys; and you're even less likely to have heard of the other, less captivating term they commonly go by: "financial tombstones". But even if you are...

Giant Deal Tombstones For Giant Deals (Including The Deal Toy Most Likely To Be Stolen)

December 11, 2022 by David Parry

In over 40+ years of operation, The Corporate Presence has helped celebrate a number of very large transactions---and created a number of very large deal tombstones. How large? One of the deal tombstone designs featured below tips the scales...

Lucite Embedments: The Questions You Should Really be Asking

November 29, 2022 by David Parry

The Lucite embedment process, as you've probably heard, offers an ideal way to preserve, showcase, and honor prized items and objects. Unless you don't know what you're doing. Because it also offers a great way to singe, tinge, melt, mangle,...

Dinosaur Deal Toys: The Bay Area’s IB “Four Horsemen”

November 14, 2022 by David Parry

This post is one in a series celebrating some of the deals and dealmakers in The Corporate Presence's 40-years of designing and providing deal toys and custom awards. Another recent post in this series focused on the late Bruce Wasserstein.  Along...

The $41 Billion London-New York Deal Stolen in The Night

November 10, 2022 by David Parry

Of all the deal toys The Corporate Presence has created for clients over its forty-year history, the design below might seem pretty unremarkable. After all, it's an ordinary rectangle. But it does have all the virtues of a classic deal toy...

5 Memorable Code Name-Themed Finance Tombstones

October 27, 2022 by David Parry

Code names unleash all sorts of creative possibilities for finance tombstones. A code name explains, for instance, how a tropical drink invented and popularized in Cuba could provide the inspiration for a tombstone commemorating a private equity...