The Corporate Presence

The Corporate Presence is a New York City-based design and marketing firm specializing in commemoratives for financial firms globally. These commemoratives, also commonly known as “deal toys”, “Lucites”, or “tombstones”, can be highly creative and imaginative and are long-established within the investment banking culture as a means of celebrating the successful completion of deals. These deals range from re-financings and initial public offerings to mergers & acquisitions and bankruptcy restructurings.

Deal toys, especially those made of Lucite, are also popular with commercial banks, private equity firms, and, increasingly, as a means of recognizing personal and group success and achievement among corporations generally, as well as among such non-financial institutions as colleges and universities.

The Corporate Presence has approximately 125 employees word wide, with offices in New York City, Chicago, San Francisco, London, Hong Kong, and Sydney. The company also maintains a wholly owned and operated manufacturing facility in Quebec, Canada. The Corporate Presence is best known for designing the commemoratives for many high-profile transactions, such as those marking the initial public offerings of Twitter and Facebook.

The Corporate Presence was founded in New York in 1981 with an initial focus on traditional corporate gifts such as clocks and stock crystal pieces. The company immediately recognized an untapped opportunity in deal gifts, and soon focused its efforts on the investment banking community.

As the company’s reputation spread, especially within the larger “bulge-bracket” investment banking firms, its business expanded beyond New York City, to different regions of the U.S., as well as internationally. European-based business grew sufficiently that by 1998 The Corporate Presence opened an office in London, its first outside New York.

Further expansion occurred through the company’s acquisition in 1999 of the deal toy operations of Doremus, a division of the Omnicom Group. On the heels of this acquisition, the company opened an office in San Francisco and increased its marketing efforts in Europe, Asia, and Australia.

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