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...
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...
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...
Coming up with creative deal toy ideas can be a chore for bankers Especially when they're faced with the same predictable, stock design suggestions. Fortunately, there are a number of imaginative–though commonly overlooked— design...
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...
Currency-themed deal toys can play off a variety of creative options, including national symbols, maps, and flags. Currency nicknames have also been a rich source of ideas for commemorating currency-themed transactions. Over the years, we've based...
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...
The DreamWorks IPO deal toy design shouldn’t have been too surprising. Even now, almost 20 years later, the Shrek-inspired, translucent green design may still seem like an obvious, almost inevitable choice. But it was also a design choice...
In over 40+ years of operation, The Corporate Presence has helped celebrate a number of very large transactions---and created a number of very large deal tombstones. How large? One of the deal tombstone designs featured below tips the scales...
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...