Happy Holidays From All of Match-Up

To all of our clients, partners, vendors, friends, family, and complete strangers that take the time to visit our site- all of us at Match-Up would like to wish you happy holidays. We appreciate all the wonderful companies and people we have worked with in 2008 and look forward to a prosperous and safe 2009.

Happy Holidays

We just had our Holiday Party—it was very merry.

Tally so Far...

So far, this holiday season has seen Match-Up produce a very festive order for PUSH and our friends in Antigua, holiday themed bam-bams for the Magic, and new and improved mini “bobbles” for the Lightning. This holiday season has also seen Match-Up producers and employees consume (on a weekly basis) 315,000 calories, 21 glasses of eggnog, 4 fruit cakes, 34 candy-canes, 91 sugar cookies, 49 lollipops, and a few cases of Sam Adams Winter Lager. We have an ongoing experiment on the correlation between caloric intake and product concept generation and we’ll report the results on 1/2/09.

Yawn—more national television exposure

Let's see—past few weeks have seen Match-Up produced products on ESPN Monday Night Football (Titans), ESPN College Football (UCF), The World Series on Fox (Rays), and the NBA on TNT (Thunder). While the publicity is great—perhaps our true claim to fame will be the shirts we are doing for the Nude-A-Palooza. We do not jest- look it up in Google and just know that when the clothes come back on—the shirts are by Match-Up.

BOO

What do you call a dog owned by Dracula? A blood hound.

The Misadventures of Match-Up

We took a break from the rigors of bobblehead producing and attended the annual Match-Up outing at Islands of Adventure. Words used to describe the day..."Excellent" (Heidi), "****** fantastic" (Nikole), "Great" (Jaklyn), "Complete and utter terror" (Adam). Check out all the photos on our MySpace page!

Ok—we'll get serious—for a second

The last couple of weeks have been very hectic at Match-Up...babies being born, Member-Guest golf tournaments, flowers at the office, the Rays beating the accent out of the Red Sox, preparations for the company retreat...but let us put a hold on our mundane activities and hit ya with some knowledge. The PowerPoint found at www.ppai.com/NR/rdonlyres/C030EB75-907C-4C28-A977-0C09B6CF4FC0/0/power.PPT#1 contains enlightening facts and figures (actual validated research) showing end-users exactly how effective promotional products are! And if you don't care for the actual data- remember we have been endorsed by both Senator's McCain and Obama and Beldar (the President of the Planet Melmac- you know, where ALF was from).