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Many companies talked about pivoting or making other major changes because of the pandemic. Not so Kansas City-based Power Sales, one of the largest master fulfillment companies in terms of warehouse square footage, inventory, and orders. According to CEO and Founder Dave Roberts, from the start of the pandemic, the company simply doubled down on its cautious approach to business and its focus on its people only to be pleasantly surprised by the degree of growth over the last two years. ... [ read more ]

The Incentive Gift Card Council (IGCC) and the Retail Gift Card Association (RGCA) has launched a new website Diversity-in-giftcards.org. The website is one of several initiatives from a collaboration between the two organizations that started in 2020 when RGCA and IGCC leaders agreed the industry needed to take action to help promote diversity, equity, and inclusion.... [ read more ]

Incentive, recognition, gifting, and loyalty programs touch the lives of almost every consumer, employee, donor, or volunteer, and yet few people have any idea that these programs are part of a formal field and business discipline. ... [ read more ]

The year began with a lot of optimism in the world of motivational events. Since then, over half of respondents to this Incentive Research Foundation pulse survey of 180 corporate end-users, meeting planners and third-party incentive providers have made destination changes for nearer-term programs.... [ read more ]

Yes, is the unanimous answer of executives at a diverse group of companies in the field. Almost no one outside the world's largest companies that use incentive or recognition companies are aware that there is a formal field estimated to have sales of close of over $90 billion annually or formal practices related to process design and return-on-investment measurement. The big question is: what to do about it. ... [ read more ]

Partners for Incentives has focused on selling its incentive and recognition services, rewards, and technologies for over 40 of its 70 years through promotional distributors, so RRN checked in to find out the company's perspective on the role this channel is playing in the field today and the overall state of the IRR (Incentive, Rewards, and Recognition) market. ... [ read more ]

In part 2 of this series of interviews with executives in the Incentive, Recognition, and Rewards (IRR) field, most believe that the new focus on human capital management is real and will have an impact on their business, but it's not clear yet how the IRR industry specifically will capitalize on this opportunity in terms of offering broader solutions, if any. ... [ read more ]

In a sign of the horizontal integration in the IRR space predicted by RRN, the Worktango employee voice platform has been purchased by an employee experience tech firm known as Kazoo. ... [ read more ]

The Incentive Federation International board awarded a contract to Richard Garlick and Associates Consulting and Market Research Services, LLC to conduct the latest IRR (Incentive, Rewards, and Recognition) Marketplace study. The new report seeks to be consistent with past studies for comparison purposes while addressing the recent experiential trend. ... [ read more ]

It's boon times in meetings and events: Just try booking a group at a popular destination for 2023. While many event planners seem happy to go back to the traditional event format, most motivational meetings experts interviewed say it's time to rethink the format to focus more time on interactions, and less on plenary and panel discussions.... [ read more ]