Promoting and Displaying Company Values in a Hybrid Workplace

February 3, 2022 by David Parry

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...

Ringing the Bell: IPO Deal Toys and Deal Gifts

January 19, 2022 by David Parry

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...

Groundbreaking Commemorative Gifts: 5 Great Ideas Beyond Shovels & Hardhats

January 13, 2022 by David Parry

If you’re looking for groundbreaking commemorative gifts, you shouldn’t have much of a problem.  After all, without much effort, you can find a variety of groundbreaking gift ideas, including miniature shovels, life-sized shovels, plastic...

Displaying Your Mission Statement: Lessons from a Music Producer

December 2, 2021 by David Parry

You may be wondering whether it’s really worth displaying your organization’s mission statement. After all, you may already have made the effort to put a mission or values statement in writing; and you may even already be promoting it, perhaps...

Acrylic Paperweights: Are They Really What You Want?

November 22, 2021 by David Parry

The term “acrylic paperweight” is a common one, but it’s also something of a misnomer. In our 40 years of experience, most clients expressing interest in an acrylic paperweight, it often turns out, aren’t really looking for something made of...

Twitter Adds Another Deal Toy to its Timeline

November 5, 2021 by David Parry

This week marks the 8th anniversary of the initial public offering of Twitter, one of a number of landmark IPO deal toys, including those for Google and Facebook, that the Corporate Presence has designed over the years. 2021 also marks the 10th...

Financial Tombstone “Graveyards”: Clear Up Your Deal Backlog

October 31, 2021 by David Parry

Ordering a financial tombstone, as you've probably heard, should be the fun part of your deal; but it can sometimes be something you might be dreading, especially if you're facing a daunting backlog of deals to commemorate. Talk of "graveyards"...

What’s The Difference Between Glass And Crystal?

October 15, 2021 by David Parry

Glass and crystal look similar to the untrained eye, they're not manufactured the same way and there are also important differences that may make one better than the other for custom awards and deal toys. From scientific differences to the shipping...

Our Financial Deal Tombstones Template Guide

October 4, 2021 by David Parry

The financial industry employs over eight million people. If you’re involved in the very competitive investment banking industry, then you’re making big deals for large companies (or startups making it big!). You’ve heard that after a big...