Posts By: dcadmin

On Wednesday October 21st, I had the great honor of representing Small Business Retailers at the House of Representatives hearing on EMV credit card adoption, which has been slow to be adopted, has been expensive, and highly confusing. Moreover, on October 1st, the banks arbitrarily shifted the liability for fraud to retailers that had not… Read more »

We were recently privileged to be called upon to create gifts for the grand opening of the new United States Diplomacy Center at the State Department! The Diplomacy Center will celebrate the history of America’s diplomats for the first time! The center will also be educational, by shedding light on “What is Diplomacy”, “Who does… Read more »

Visitors to China for business are generally aware that gifting is an important part of the culture. We understand that Gifts are often offered and it is appropriate to reciprocate. The concept of gifting is routed in the ancient Chinese concept of Guan Xi ( which translates to personal relationships and sphere of influences). Here… Read more »

This January I visited NYC for the 2015 National Retail Federation Big Show. 33,000 people attended. Along with very interesting speakers, we got to see some of the bells and whistles of 21st century retail. Lots of this revolves around ever increasing sophistication of mobile technology: How we are identified as consumers and sold to!… Read more »

For many years we have been creating gifts for the USO celebrating their Person of the Year award. This award is presented at their gala in October. This year it was awarded to Toby Keith, previous year’s winners included Admiral Mullen, General Jim Jones, and General Richard Myers. At the Gala this year I got… Read more »