DOC NYC: Celebrated Annual Awards Focus on Documentary Films

November 10, 2023 by David Parry

Little Richard, John Lecarré, a Kurdish carpenter, an Afghani women's soccer team, a Ugandan opposition leader, Daniel Radcliff's Harry Potter stunt double, North Korean escapees, a group of Estonian women, and a lone, elderly Norwegian man will...

The Deal Tombstone Backstory: A Megadeal Signed at a Food Stamps Office

November 10, 2023 by David Parry

In our 42-year history, The Corporate Presence has designed the deal tombstone for a number of landmark transactions. We've designed and produced the tombstones, for instance, for the initial public offerings of Apple, KKR, Twitter, Facebook,...

Sales Recognition Awards: a Single Tip to Transform Their Value

November 6, 2023 by David Parry

Sales recognition awards can be invaluable to the performance and destiny of your organization. At least that's the wisdom put out, not surprisingly, by organizations that sell sales recognition awards. But despite the self-serving insights, and...

5 Ideas for “Green” and Sustainability-Themed Deal Toys

September 20, 2023 by David Parry

Sustainability isn't exactly a new focus, either for financial transactions themselves or for the deal toys that commemorate them. After all, sustainability has been a corporate tenet for decades now, and become the centerpiece of any number of...

Oil and Gas Deal Toys That Will Leave an Impression

September 5, 2023 by David Parry

When ordering oil and gas deal toys, one of your top priorities should be making them memorable. Most deals require a significant amount of time, effort, and expertise, and you want your deal toy to reflect and truly commemorate that achievement....

Closing Dinner Deal Toys: 5 Ways to Avoid Disaster

August 14, 2023 by David Parry

Bankers can vastly reduce the downside of closing dinner deal toys and other deadlines by guarding against these 5 common pitfalls. What happened to one analyst's deal toys ---deal toys that were supposed to be given out at a closing dinner that...

The “Classic” Deal Toy Connecting Harvard with “George of The Jungle”

August 9, 2023 by David Parry

The classic deal toy above may conjure up some dim memories, and not just of Casper the Friendly Ghost. The Lucite tombstone is also a vestige of another spectral presence: the now-defunct investment banking powerhouse Bear Stearns. But the...

5 Investment Banking Tombstones for 5 Remarkable Deals

August 1, 2023 by David Parry

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...

Project “Barracuda”? Project “Buzz”? Browse Some Great Code Name-Inspired Deal Toys

July 21, 2023 by David Parry

Code names offer a rich, and too often neglected, source of deal toy ideas. Code names tend to provide ready-made design ideas because they also tend to be both colorful and evocative. The code names for high-profile deals have included, for...