Special Appearance: Cincinnati Pitcher & Avid Collector Bill Bray Stops By Panini HQ
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBjoZ8Pbyy4&w=585&h=327] Part of the excitement of being on the Panini America marketing team is you really never know what you're walking into on any given day. Friday morning started off with a bang, as our email inbox chimed with a note from Product Development Director Ben Ecklar asking if someone from the marketing team would be available to conduct a…
Panini America On Location: Farewell from the 2011 Pop Warner Super Bowl
[wpvideo zfTjL46D]The final day of Pop Warner Super Bowl championship games took place yesterday at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex at the Walt Disney World Resort. To say the championship games were exciting would be an understatement. From an overtime thriller to an impressive aerial display in the final day's game - it was a day these young athletes…
Panini America On Location: Palm Trees, Pop Warner Super Bowl & Panini America
ORLANDO, Fla. – The sunshine, excitement and non-stop football action continued Friday at the 55th Pop Warner Super Bowl with the Division II Championship Games, as four Division II National Champions were crowned. Panini America was on location to capture some of the sights from the event, held annually at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex located on the world…
Panini America On Location: The 2011 Pop Warner Cheer & Dance Championships
ORLANDO, Fla. – With football games well underway and brackets beginning to take shape, it was time for the girls to get things started on Monday. Officials at Panini America were on hand as the the 24th Pop Warner Cheer & Dance National Championships kicked off at Disney’s ESPN Wide World of Sports complex. As the “Exclusive Trading Card Partner of Pop Warner Little Scholars,” Panini America will be handing…
The Other Side of Cards: Behind the Scenes with Panini America’s Editorial Department
Three hundred characters, including spaces. That’s not a lot of room to sum up the entire career – much less even one meaningful highlight from the career -- of a professional athlete. In fact, by the time you get to the good part, you’re out of room. So how does the Panini America editorial team do it? For the record,…
Panini America On Location Video: Setting Up the Booth at the 2011 Toronto Fall Expo
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVnIVfLHxIg&w=585&h=327] TORONTO, Ontario -- In this exclusive video, the Panini America team arrives in Toronto and immediately begins preparing for this week's 2011 Toronto Fall Expo. What goes on behind the scenes in setting up the company's booth? Good question. Watch the video to find the answers to this and many more questions, such as, "do the Panini America guys…
The Sooner, The Better: Previewing DeMarco Murray’s Upcoming Autographed RCs
Was it just coincidence that Dallas Cowboys rookie running back DeMarco Murray went out and rushed for a franchise single-game record 253 yards in a victory over the St. Louis Rams just days after visiting Panini America HQ to sign some of his upcoming Rookie Cards? We think not. Indeed, we'd like to think Murray's breakout performance Sunday -- which…
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…
Newton’s Theory of Wow: Cam Continues to Shine with Special Panini America Delivery
Make no mistake about it: Carolina Panthers superstar quarterback Cam Newton is enjoying one of the greatest starts to a career in NFL history. Through his first four games, Newton has passed for almost 1,400 yards and five touchdowns, rushed for 133 yards and four more scores and he's been a finalist for Pepsi NFL Rookie of the Week honors every week. But football card collectors will likely find Newton's performance…
Panini America Must-See Video: Scenes from the Josh Hamilton/MLBPA Press Conference
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s1qm35WbG0&w=585&h=426] To quote Panini America Vice President of Marketing Jason Howarth, yesterday was a bona fide "game-changer" for all of us here at Panini America. It was the day that the company announced its multi-year agreement with the Major League Baseball Players Association to produce baseball cards. It was the day we became the only licensed manufacturer in the world…