One for the Anglophiles
Aug. 1st, 2008 09:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
drpaisleyI work for a company that produces large-format graphics: posters, banners, floor graphics, vehicle graphics, that kind of thing. Being as we are in Kansas City, we get a certain amount of work from a large greeting card company whose name rhymes with Ballpark. They spread the stuff around, in part to keep from being stuck with a single supplier, as well as to give local companies a piece of the "very best" pie.
Most of what we do are short run items for promotional displays to be shown to store owners at their trade shows. We make a couple of dozen of things, they are shown, stores decide to order them, and the actual product is produced in China. We are very small (5 people, including the owner), and couldn't produce the quantity of product they require. We got lucky (for miscellanous values thereof [thank you,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
elaine_brennan, for that lovely phrase]) in 2006 when CVS bought Osco and got tabbed to come up with the materials necessary to convert those stores to Ballpark sellers. Damn near killed us all, including the "Mexicans" (the boss's term) he picked up at the day labor place to help with the cutting.
Anyway, we're doing another set of Xmas products, and one of the items is a set of sales items that look like 2D holiday ornaments, to be hung in the store at various places, I assume. As I was opening the files, I was barely able to restrain myself when I saw one of these "ornaments" with a picture of a reasonably attractive woman hanging decorations on a tree on one half, and on the other half the following slogan:
"Trim with Fun!"
Well, one would certainly hope so, or what's the point? I hope that this will be marketed to UK outlets, I really really do.
Most of what we do are short run items for promotional displays to be shown to store owners at their trade shows. We make a couple of dozen of things, they are shown, stores decide to order them, and the actual product is produced in China. We are very small (5 people, including the owner), and couldn't produce the quantity of product they require. We got lucky (for miscellanous values thereof [thank you,
elaine_brennan, for that lovely phrase]) in 2006 when CVS bought Osco and got tabbed to come up with the materials necessary to convert those stores to Ballpark sellers. Damn near killed us all, including the "Mexicans" (the boss's term) he picked up at the day labor place to help with the cutting.Anyway, we're doing another set of Xmas products, and one of the items is a set of sales items that look like 2D holiday ornaments, to be hung in the store at various places, I assume. As I was opening the files, I was barely able to restrain myself when I saw one of these "ornaments" with a picture of a reasonably attractive woman hanging decorations on a tree on one half, and on the other half the following slogan:
"Trim with Fun!"
Well, one would certainly hope so, or what's the point? I hope that this will be marketed to UK outlets, I really really do.