Here is news from throughout the world of rewards recognition, including research, company news, mergers and acquistitions, etc.
The Incentive Marketing Association and Recognition Professionals International announce annual rewards at their recent annual meeting in Park City, UT. ... [ read more ]
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With nearly 25 years of experience in the IRR (Incentive, Rewards, and Recognition) field, Heather Chevreau has been named Director, Corporate Sales, for Citizen Watch America.... [ read more ]
The preliminary results are in from the 2022 Incentive Federation Inc. (IFI) Research Study: industry sales totaled $176 billion in 2021, a 49% increase since the last study was published six years ago in 2016. Reflecting the importance of experiential rewards, this category was added to the study for the first time. ... [ read more ]
The recently published academic study, Regulated Human Capital Disclosures, published in SSRN, comes to a surprising conclusion. Human Capital disclosures of public companies can have a material impact on short-term share prices, sometimes known as “earnings surprises.” However, the impact is only noticeable in industries in which people are considered material to financial results, and that the companies most likely to disclose more information on human capital have higher levels of institutional investor ownership. ... [ read more ]
The latest 2022 Incentive Research Foundation Destination Preference Study surveying 405 US salespeople correlated with Cvent and 3D Cruise Partners booking data finds that incentive travel is in higher demand than ever and that organizations appear to be generally selecting destinations in line with participant desires. Individual travel is almost universally coveted.... [ read more ]
The labor shortage, high employee expectations and turnover, customer disloyalty, and the increasing focus on stakeholder management and human capital reporting are creating significant opportunities for the IRR (Incentive, Rewards, and Recognition) field. Given that the IRR field remains largely unknown outside of the trade, the big question is: who will be the beneficiaries of this next period of growth?... [ read more ]
As one can imagine, the demand for luggage in the Incentive, Recognition, and Reward business has surged with the return of travel. The big challenge now? Supply and demand. ... [ read more ]
The Incentive Marketing Association (IMA) and Recognition Professionals International (RPI) announced that RPI has joined the IMA as a Strategic Industry Group (SIG). The two organizations have been collaborating since signing an affiliation agreement in March of 2021.... [ read more ]
