RP’s finest gift items to get excellence awards

The country’s finest and worldclass gift items will get excellence awards during the staging of "Corporate Giveaways 2002", an international product exhibition that will be held at the World Trade Center Metro Manila on July 3-6.

The award-winning items will be picked from among a huge assembly of corporate giveaways that will go on exhibit in this four-day event, which has been attracting hundreds of exhibitors and hundreds of thousands of visitors annually since 1989.

Corporate Giveaways 2002 is the country’s undisputed premier buyers’ show on business gifts, premiums, promotional ideas, and merchandise incentives.

These products will be classified into nine categories, each of which shall have a winner.

The nine categories are breakables, fabric, food and beverage packaging, indigenous, leather, metal, paper, synthetic, and wood. The nine winners will also get a 50-percent booth discount for next year’s exhibition.

Open only to exhibitors, the awards will go strictly to products made in the Philippines, regardless whether they contain local or imported materials, or both.

Qualified for the awards are only business gifts that can carry a corporate logo without sacrificing their aesthetic quality, workmanship, functionality, and use of the material. These gift items must reflect novel ideas and be characterized by innovative designs.

The judges will come from the marketing and publishing sectors, according to special events manager Raquel Romero of Worldexco, the organizer of Corporate Giveaways 2002.

Now on its 14th year, the event will match gift suppliers, manufacturers and importers with corporate buyers, enabling them to transact business for the year-round giveaways way ahead of the Christmas rush.

Inquiries or reservations can be made with Worldexco (tel. 8918638, 8347408, fax 8340608, email [email protected], and website www.worldexco.com).

The event will also enable exhibitors to launch new products and ideas to a readily receptive market; touch base with thousands of top-management executives in search of various giveaways, market their companies and promote various products and services directly, and establish a vast network of potential clients on a national and international scale.

Moreover, Corporate Giveaways also features "How To Seminars" on various interesting topics, a "Bargain Center" to enable visitors to shop for items at retail prices, and Loyalty Awards for exhibitors with at least 10 years of participation in this annual event.