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...
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...
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...
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...