How the Champion Cubs Have Impacted the Panini America Spring Training Road Trip
Long before the young and ridiculously talented nucleus of the Chicago Cubs -- Kris Bryant, Kyle Schwarber, Anthony Rizzo, Addison Russell, Javier Baez, Carl Edwards Jr. and more -- made history Wednesday night by clinching the franchise's first World Series title in 108 years, they made an impact at the Panini Spring Training Road Trip. In fact, the Cubs seemingly have…
Panini America Sheds Light on Fall Heroes Checklist, Autographed Yasiel Puig Bat
With Game 2 of the World Series set to begin later this evening between St. Louis and Boston, Panini America officials released additional details on the company's special Fall Heroes promotion that began yesterday exclusively at iCollectPanini.com. Yesterday we shared just a few preview images to whet the appetite of baseball fans everywhere. Today, we're going to share a lot…
iCollectPanini.com, Panini America Launch Online-Only “Fall Heroes” Promotion
It's baaaaack. The World Series? Sure. But it's the iCollectPanini.com promotion that just launched this afternoon in conjunction with the 2013 Fall Classic that has all of us here inside Panini America HQ really pumped. In the true championship tradition of iCollectPanini.com's other successful promotions surrounding the Super Bowl, the NBA Finals and the Stanley Cup Finals, the company hits the…
Panini America Peeks the Famous Moments Insert in 2012 Cooperstown Baseball
For the myriad National Baseball Hall of Fame members permeating the checklist for Panini America's upcoming 2012 Cooperstown Baseball, there is one insert set in particular that pays tribute not so much to the greatest players in baseball history, but to the memorabilia they wielded while achieving that greatness. The poignant Famous Moments insert provides fans and collectors with something…
Panini America Behind the Scenes: Inside The “Kobe” Conference Room
Every Monday morning, I join Scott Prusha, my product-promoting partner, for a weekly marketing meeting with Jason Howarth, Panini America's Vice President of Marketing and, more importantly, our boss. With so much exciting, marketable stuff going on around us all the time, no two meetings are ever quite the same. Well, aside from two key facts: The weekly marketing meetings always start the same…
A World Series-Worthy Contest
Many people might not realize that Panini America's corporate office is located less than a mile from Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, site of Game 3, Game 4 and potentially Game 5 of the 2010 World Series that begins tonight in San Francisco when the Texas Rangers battle the Giants. The proximity of the home team means we have an office full…
The Texas Rangers? In the World Series?
Confession: I haven’t been much of a Texas Rangers fan since about 1993. As a guy who was born in Arlington, Texas, in 1970, lived there for 12 years and now works less than a mile from Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, that’s not something I’m particularly proud of right about now. (more…)