Bankers have long found ways to incorporate cars and motorcycles into their deal toys—and even if they have no ostensible connection to the underlying transaction itself. Sometimes cars and bikes get worked into the deal toy design by virtue...
Bankers have long found ways to incorporate cars and motorcycles into their deal toys—and even if they have no ostensible connection to the underlying transaction itself. Sometimes cars and bikes get worked into the deal toy design by virtue...
Facebook’s landmark IPO also generated an iconic deal toy. The Facebook IPO deal toy---along with those we designed to recognize the IPO's for Google and Twitter---is arguably the deal toy we're most often asked about. At meetings and...
Using Code Names to Enhance Deal Toy Designs Devising a successful code name for a deal takes some foresight. As former M&A banker Scott Rostan explained to the Wall Street Journal last year, code names “have to be secret enough that you can...
Did Bono get a deal toy? What about 50 Cent? Or William Shatner? Did anyone remember to put Shatner on the distribution list? We honestly don’t know, and quite frankly, it’s none of our business. But we do know that each of the deal...
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...