Panini America Employee Cards Add Rarity, Fun to National Wrapper Redemption Set
When the 2012 National Sports Collectors Convention begins tomorrow in Baltimore, Panini America will give new meaning to the term "business cards." And depending on your perspective, it's a development that will either set collecting back a few decades or provide a fun, scarce addition for any Panini America fan. The history-making (or is that history-mocking?) Rookie Cards of Panini…
A Gallery Documenting Multisport Madness at the Panini America Printing Facility
2011-12 Prime Hockey. 2011-12 Dominion Hockey. 2012 Score Football Team Sets. 2012 Triple Play Baseball. Panini America's 2012 National Sports Collectors Convention wrapper-redemption set. 2012-13 Prestige Basketball. The Official 2012 NFL Sticker & Album Collection.The common thread woven throughout that vast and varied list of upcoming products? They're all being worked on right now at the Panini America printing facility.…
How’d Panini America Do That? Production Line Video Details Laser-Cutting Process.
On Friday we brought you 28 revealing images from our fabulous field trip last week to the Panini America printing facility. Today, we do you one better with captivating video footage of various products in various stages of production. One of the things we didn't show you in that gallery late last week? The hypnotically hip process of laser cutting…
Must-See Gallery: 28 Random Scenes from the Panini America Printing Facility
For the first time in a long time I ventured across town to the Panini America printing facility this morning -- essentially celebrating my second holiday in the span of three days. After all, a field trip to the Panini America printing facility is too much fun, too revealing, too rewarding and too fascinating to be considered work. In theory,…
Panini America Provides Final Packout Peek at 2011 Preferred Basketball’s Penmanship
Last Friday we leaked the first glorious glimpses of the sublime booklet cards that will drop one per box inside 2011 Preferred Basketball. Frankly, it was one of the most buzz-generating galleries we've done on The Knight's Lance in quite some time. But the one that follows promises to be just as juicy. As you're about to find out, we took…
Panini America’s Must-See Video Honoring Alabama’s Slicing and Dicing of LSU
With a legendarily dominant defensive performance, the Alabama Crimson Tide defeated, demoralized and decimated the LSU Tigers in last night's BCS Championship Game, earning the school its 14th football national title since 1925. The Tide's stirring game-long stand limited the Tigers to just 92 total yards and hearkened back to the houndstooth glory days of Paul "Bear" Bryant and his…
Massive Gallery: Panini America Packs Out 2011-12 Limited Hockey (28 Must-See Pics)
Assistant NHL Brand Manager Tim Trout, one of Panini America's newest hires, continues to make positive impressions on the marketing department and on readers of The Knight's Lance. Friday afternoon, Trout pulled quality control and packout duty at the Panini America production for the highly anticipated 2011-12 Limited Hockey. Before he left, he stopped by to see if there was anything…
Panini America On Location: An Excursion Abroad to the Homeland in Modena, Italy
MODENA, Italy -- A business trip that began for members of Panini America Wednesday morning in Dallas, Texas, and included a layover in New York City before an overnight flight across the ocean, finally reached terra firma Thursday morning in Milan, Italy. Upon arrival, the Panini America contingent, one of 18 Panini subsidiaries descending upon the company's motherland this week, immediately boarded two buses…
Video & Gallery: On the Production Line with 2011 Absolute Memorabilia Football
Last Friday we gave you a tantalizing peek into the packout process for 2011 Absolute Memorabilia Football, an image-filled appetite-whetting precursor to today's exclusive video footage taken right there on the production line. In addition to the brief-but-compelling piece of cinematography that follows, we also managed to get our hands on some additional cards from packout that will shed just a little more…
Panini America On Location: Packout Begins for 2011 Absolute Memorabilia Football
"Rocket." It's the term we use inside Panini America headquarters for a product that is poised for an explosive ascent on the secondary market and in customer appreciation. Friday morning at the Panini America printing facility, I had the opportunity to spend some quality time with such a rocket. Indeed, 2011 Absolute Memorabilia Football is poised for takeoff. (more…)