More “New” Dinosaur Deal Toys: Going Back to The 90’s

March 8, 2021 by David Parry

As part of our celebration of The Corporate Presence's 40th anniversary, we will be publishing several more installments of the popular series "Dinosaur Deal Toys". The deal toys featured here showcase several now-defunct firms that were once...

More Dinosaur Deal Toys – See Tombstones From The 1990’s!

January 29, 2021 by David Parry

Over the years we've presented several retrospectives featuring some of our more vintage deal toy designs. This particular collection of "Dinosaur Deal Toys" was originally published in 2016, and focuses on relics from the 90's. If you're...

Landmark IPO Deal Toys: KKR, Apple, Shrek & More!

December 15, 2020 by David Parry

(This is another in a series of posts, leading up to The Corporate Presence's 40th anniversary, that will focus on noteworthy deals we have commemorated). Twitter, Google, KKR, Facebook, Palm, Apple, DreamWorks.... They're only some of the...

Burgers, Bulbs, and Bavarian Tech: Some Recent European Deal Toys

November 9, 2020 by David Parry

In the many months since our last round-up of European deal toys, more than a few transactions have come our way. This post only covers a handful of the resulting deal toys we've recently designed; but the collection should give you a sense of...

Honoring the Guy Who Attacked You with a Four Iron

October 28, 2020 by David Parry

Over the years we've designed deal toys and custom awards in many media, including crystal, resin, and wood. This post from 2013 pays special tribute to our one of our favorite materials, Lucite, and to Halloween. We’ve done our best to teach...

An Unwitting Commemorative of “Nightmare Eve”

October 12, 2020 by David Parry

(This is another in a series of posts, leading up to The Corporate Presence's 40th anniversary, that will focus on noteworthy deals we have commemorated). "What's that place called again where the Broncos play?". That's the question that was...

The Megadeal Signed at a Food Stamps Office

October 6, 2020 by David Parry

(This is another in a series of posts, leading up to The Corporate Presence's 40th anniversary, that will focus on noteworthy deals we have commemorated). It's hard to imagine which of these might've been more satisfying. Selling your company...

Acrylic Embedment: 5 Unique Marketing & Branding Opportunities for Your Organization

September 26, 2020 by David Parry

A Lucite embedment can uniquely help brand or market your company or organization---provided you're aware of the possibilities and advantages. "But what exactly do they do?" That's a question we've heard repeatedly over the years when people...

Some Landmark M&A Deals—And Their Deal Toys (Updated)

September 21, 2020 by David Parry

The M&A deals commemorated here involved not only individuals like Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Warren Buffett, and Robert Iger...but also a Ukrainian immigrant and a former Yahoo engineer. They involved firms like Blackstone, Moelis,...