Panini America Delivers Packout Peek at the Upcoming 2017 Flawless Baseball (Gallery)

Panini America Product Development Director Ben Ecklar has been pulling double duty in recent days, overseeing packout for the company's upcoming 2017 Flawless Baseball release and capturing some scintillating imagery in the process. Through both email and text, Ecklar has been keeping us here in Marketing in the loop with some of the product's collection-making cornerstones -- and now we're paying…

The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2017 National Treasures Collegiate Football

Panini America's 2017 Spectra Football released to rave reviews today in hobby shops across the country, creating a wrapper-ripping buzz that's almost palpable. In two short days, another Panini America football product with plenty of pop -- 2017 National Treasures Collegiate Football -- is sure to follow in Spectra's frenzy-generating footsteps. The patch-powered product is a high-end, hit-filled, ink-heavy offering…

The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2017 Immaculate Collegiate Football

From the very beginning, Panini America's Immaculate brand has earned its stripes in the hobby by delivering some of the most desirable memorabilia cards on the planet regardless of sport. It's a common, often super-prime thread that has woven its way through baseball, basketball and football over the years before finally making its mark on the college football landscape last…

Teaser Gallery: Panini America Opens Boxes of 2016 Immaculate Collegiate Football

If you gave me only one word to describe Panini America's live-today 2016 Immaculate Collegiate Football release, I would say "loaded." But then I would grovel for a second word to add to it, place it at the front and say "absolutely loaded."  That pretty much sums up what the inaugural football-focused Immaculate product is all about. Pre-billed as delivering…

Teaser Gallery: Panini America Cracks Early Boxes of 2016 Black Gold Collegiate Football

Panini America's unique Black Gold brand will make its first foray into the college football arena later this week when 2016 Black Gold Collegiate Football arrives in hobby shops and on group break sites across North America. Based on resounding feedback from distributors, hobby shops and collectors, a product originally solicited as a multisport release has been transformed into a…

The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2016 Black Gold Collegiate Football

So much has changed since Panini America first solicited the all-new 2016 Black Gold Collegiate in early May. Like, everything. Based on resounding feedback from distributors, hobby shops and collectors, the collegiate debut of Panini America's popular Black Gold brand is no longer a multisport product. Indeed, when the product arrives in hobby shops across North America next Friday, it…

Legends and New York Baseball Stars Round Out Panini America’s 2016 National Base Set

With the 2016 National Sports Collectors Convention set to begin two weeks from today, it's time to start ramping up our preview coverage of everything Panini America has planned to steal collecting's annual summer showcase once again. Over the last few weeks we've shown you bits and pieces, including early looks at the National VIP set, parts of Panini America's…

The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2016 Prizm Collegiate Draft Picks Football

With the 2016 NFL Draft now just more than two weeks away, it's hard to determine at this point who's more excited about that: Draftniks and NFL pundits . . . or football collectors. While the former group makes its opinions known through various traditional media and social media outlets on an often minute-by-minute basis, the latter group raises its…

Winston, Cooper, Coleman Autos Arrive for 2015 Contenders Football (Gallery)

It has arrived. The annual secondary-market frenzy that accompanies the release of every Contenders Football product is underway in these first 24 hours or so of 2015 Contenders Football live time. As is also the case with any Contenders Football release, the arrival is only the beginning. In the coming weeks, we will deliver essential information on SPs, SSPs, variations…

A Glance Inside Panini America’s Upcoming Florida State University Card Set

Panini America is reuniting some of the greatest athletes in Florida State Seminoles history for the company’s upcoming 2015 Florida State University trading card set that’s slated to ship to retailers later this month. The unique set features 80 base cards honoring the school’s most decorated athletes, alumni, athletic structures and traditions. The 80-card base set features Silver, Gold (numbered to…