Tips to Avoid Pitfalls in Closing Dinner Deal Toys What happened to one analyst's deal toys ---deal toys that were supposed to be given out at a closing dinner that very night----was more than a little scary. Maybe an even better word, as you'll...
Tips to Avoid Pitfalls in Closing Dinner Deal Toys What happened to one analyst's deal toys ---deal toys that were supposed to be given out at a closing dinner that very night----was more than a little scary. Maybe an even better word, as you'll...
The phrase "investment banking tombstones" tends to conjure up some immediate associations. Buttoned-up, drab, and probably most of all, boring. A lot of that's undoubtedly due to the word "tombstone". In just about any context, the word pretty...
In the 40+ years that The Corporate Presence has been designing and producing deal toys, we've worked with a large and varied list of clients. Sadly, many of those clients are no longer with us. As we've noted in our installments of the Dinosaur...
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...
Of all the deal toys The Corporate Presence has created for clients over its 44-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 design:...
This post was originally written to commemorate the 40th anniversary of The Corporate Presence as a provider of deal toys and custom awards. It's also part of a series of posts celebrating some of the noteworthy deals---and personalities behind...
Any time you order an award to commemorate a special event for your company or organization, you obviously want that award to stand the test of time. After all, that’s the entire point of commemorating the occasion: to ensure that years, and even...
The hybrid workplace has been an effective---not to mention necessary---adjustment since the advent of the pandemic, but it's also inevitably presented a number of challenges to both employers and employees. One of those challenges involves...
Along with mergers & acquisitions, initial public offerings provide some of the most common occasions for deal toys and deal gifts. And 2021 was an especially busy year for the IPO market. The number of annual public offerings exceeded the 1,000...