BACKPanini America Presents Must-See Scenes & Memories from Father’s Day 2012
On a day when collectors across the country are celebrating the greatness of their dads, we here at Panini America join you all in wishing you all a wonderful Father’s Day. Our special promotion this year has bestowed an undeniable collecting twist to this year’s annual day of dads.
And thanks to the miracle of social media, we’ve collected just a few of the great images that have come across the Panini America Twitter and Facebook pages in the last few days to share with you in the gallery that follows.
But we’d be remiss if we didn’t share one story in particular from Charlie DiPietro, the owner of Sports Cards Plus in San Antonio, Texas, who blessed my email inbox this morning with the following day-maker of a message:
“The Panini America Father’s Day Promotion is awesome. Great response from my customers. This weekend, the Panini America Promotion brought collectors into my store from California, Indiana, Florida and New York (here on business or vacation). We had a collectors drive from Killeen, Texas (145 miles away), Uvalde, Texas (89 miles away) and Corpus Christi, Texas (159 miles away) just for the Father’s Day Packs. Sales were great; but best of all, we had lots of happy customers. This program is great customer relations for Panini America and Sports Cards Plus of San Antonio. It got my football collectors to try Panini America Baseball, and the added value of the Father’s Day Packs made every Panini America box they bought a winner! Sports Cards Plus received a total of 1,090 Panini America Father’s Day Packs, and we will continue to celebrate Father’s Day until we run out of packs to give away to the ‘World’s Greatest Customers.’
“I wanted to share with you a few picture of one of my best customers, Chris Schoenfeld. Chris and his wife have three children of their own and have adopted a child from Africa. Seeing Chris interact with his children, I am sure his children would say, he’s the world’s greatest dad. Chris and his two sons opened about 70 Father’s Day Packs in my store. Their favorite Panini America Father’s Day Card was a Kobe Bryant Shoe Card! The shoelace eye made this an extra special pull.
“Happy Father’s Day!”
Charlie, we can’t thank you enough for sharing your story and Father’s Day promotion experiences. And thanks to everyone else for sharing your experiences and great Father’s Day pulls — many of which are included below, including images from collectors as well as Mike Fruitman at Mike’s Stadium Sports Cards and Steve Mandy at Attack of the Baseball Cards.
For more great Father’s Day memories, and for a chance to win some of the scorching-hot Panini America Father’s Day packs by sharing yours, check out our contest blog by clicking here.
