Blackstone’s $23 billion purchase of GE’s real estate assets recalled another, earlier landmark deal Blackstone began April already the largest private sector landlord in the United States. With its acquisition of GE’s real estate...
Blackstone’s $23 billion purchase of GE’s real estate assets recalled another, earlier landmark deal Blackstone began April already the largest private sector landlord in the United States. With its acquisition of GE’s real estate...
As the gallery below illustrates, product replicas, almost by definition, can provide unique deal toy ideas—as well as those for valued custom corporate awards and gifts. Mention “product replica” and most people start to wince. After...
Just as there are clichéd, unspeakably bad awards meant to recognize superior performance, there are also creative, imaginative awards recognizing unspeakably bad performance. Yes, we've previously addressed the topic of bad awards (“7...
We tend to think of Lucite in terms of its virtues--- as that versatile, durable, malleable material we see in customized deal toys, awards, and recognition pieces; but it has another life, a secret, often edgy life unknown to all but a few… 1....
Zippers, shrapnel, moose manure, regurgitated coins, cookies, umbilical cords, teeth—these are just a few of the things that have found their way into our Lucite embedments over the years. “Commemorating Success Globally”. That’s our...
Our site now has three separate places for you to find a wider array of tech deal toy ideas–and more quickly and easily. You’re no doubt aware of the converging trends currently heating up the tech sector—and therefore increasing the...
Code names offer a rich, and too often neglected, source of deal toy ideas. “A good deal code name”, former Merrill Lynch M&A banker Scott Rostan explained to The Wall Street Journal last year, “can make you a rock star”. “At...
A new documentary offers an outsider’s perspective on not only the nature of deal toys, but also their unique production process Ben Thorp Brown can hardly be accused of selecting well-worn, mainstream subjects. In a career that has already...
Cross-border deal toys don’t have to be limited to the same, familiar design themes The global economy. You may have heard about it… And if you're just coming off a deal involving multiple cultures, currencies, languages, time...