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Contents

4 Hot Redeemers

A look at the top brands and top
products

6 Hot Products Gallery 16

What’s New in Rewards &
Recognition

8 Profile
Bulova’s Adrienne Forrest

10 Profile

Travel and Transport’s 20
Michelle Holmes

12 Feature

How Incentive Research Can 6
Help Drive More Measureable
and Sustainable Performance

16 Hot Destination/Hot Spot

• Mishawaka, IN Editor’s Note
• Mercer Museum,
Doylestown, PA Incentive rewards and recognition can take literally any form these days – branded merchan-
dise, travel, gift cards, sometimes even bonuses (although research reveals they don’t have the
18 Hot Destination/Hot Spot same kind of lasting impact) – a roster encompassing virtually anything and everything under
• Wellfleet, MA the sun.
• Villa Chanticleer,
Healdsburg, CA The RRN website at www.rewardsrecognitionnetwork.com provides users with myriad
resources largely on the merchandise side – news, new products, profiles of industry players,
20 Destination Spotlight top redeemers, how-to and reference articles – a multi-faceted information portal that’s a
Sleepy Hollow, NY: one-stop-shop for all things product-related. The other side of the Rewards & Recognition coin
The Home of Ichabod Crane is represented by Short Escapes at www.shortescapes.net, with information on destinations,
venues, meeting sites and other incentive travel-related content.
22 Destination Spotlight
Southern Alaska: At a time when more and more businesses are looking for ways to better engage employees,
A Life-Changing Experience customers and other key stakeholders, we think the marriage of incentive merchandise and
travel that Experiential magazine represents (as well as the closely related topic of off-site
meetings and events that involve training, communications, team-building and other busi-
ness-related initiatives) is a perfectly logical way to meld these topics, highlighting the best
of both worlds and emphasizing the crossover possibilities they offer in terms of rewards,
recognition, motivation and engagement.

We are always happy to hear from you. Please send your ideas, suggestions, opinions and
any other comments to:

Richard Kern, Editorial Director

experiential rkern@theeea.org Bonnie Crispino: Art Director
Engaging Rewa rds and Destinations Anne-Sophie Pruvost: Marketing Manager
Contributing Editors: Jayne Clark; Ashley Wright
Bruce Bolger: Publisher Krista Weber: Designer
Richard Kern: Editorial Director, Multimedia Content
Nick Gazivoda: Vice President, Sales

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