Ideas in Action
Wine on Wheels
Thank the film “Sideways” — wine tasting these days isn’t just sophisticated, it’s hot, and Poer Wine Productions wants to help you capitalize on the trend. With its custom-designed mobile wine bar — “wine on wheels” — the company can roll up to your event with wines pre-selected based your price point and your guests’ tastes and provide professional sommelier staff to serve and discuss the offerings. Sample menus include “Old World vs. New World Whites,” “The ‘Other’ Cabernet” (cabernet franc) and “Pinot-Mania” (the mania being, of course, of “Sideways” vintage). Whether they’re novices or connoisseurs, your attending oenophiles are sure to toast the tasting at your next event.
For more information, visit www.poerwine.com.
Making Tournaments Easier
Another day, another golf tournament. And why does it seem like you’re not quite getting that hole-in-one feeling? TournEase aims to resolve this dilemma. Designed by golf pros, corporate planners and nonprofit executives, it offers online tools that help you plan all aspects of your tournament, from player registration, to on-course events, to signage and beyond. TournEase also allows you to order customized merchandise, including awards, apparel, golf equipment, player gifts and snacks.
For more information, visit www.tournease.com.
Stack ’em High
Feel like your plates and your covers just aren’t seeing eye to eye? American Metalcraft wants to mediate. With custom round and oval shapes, the company’s plate covers are made to fit perfectly over the rim of your plates — just send a sample dish to the company and they’ll take it from there. Manufactured from stainless steel, the covers are heat-retaining and odor-resistant, and will not chip, crack, flake, burn or melt. The plate covers also have polished sides and a satin finish top. The covers are also specially designed to stack well, streamlining the process of serving the food.
For more information, visit www.amnow.com.
Feed your Inner Architect
Renderings aren’t just for architects of permanent environments — they’re for architects of temporary ones as well; that is, for event planners and their event spaces. With a new version recently out, event design and sales software Vivien offers planners just this capability. Based on Microsoft Windows functionality, the program is intuitive to learn and offers such features as the Seating Wizard, Truss Wizard, Pipe and Drape Wizard, Camera Toolbar and a Library Browser, through which you can choose from approximately 1,000 three-dimensional objects to use in your drawing.
For more information, visit www.viviendesign.com.
From Disposable to Indisposable
Trade show attendees often see lanyards as disposable, so why not give them lanyards constructed of goods that have been disposed of? New from Professional Marketing Services Inc., a promotional products company, are recycled lanyards. Available with a metal swivel snap hook, metal split key ring or rubber O-ring, the earth-friendly attention grabbers are available starting at $0.85 per item. If other recycled products are more your bag — say, bags, for instance — the companies got those too, along with pens, briefcases, backpacks, note pads, Frisbees, rulers, et al. Just think, offering “disposable” goods in recycled materials just might be the one thing that makes those attendees keep your lanyard — and your logo — around.
For more information, visit www.callpms.com.