About the Corporate Rewards Exchange

• Benefits for Corporate America
• Benefits for Incentive, Marketing, and Promotional Firms
• Points Programs
• Concierge Service
• Pricing, Shipping, Sales Taxes, Payments
• Member Qualifications
• Terms and Conditions
• Governance
• Customer Service

Chances are, you are coming to the Corporate Rewards Exchange buying service because your organization wishes to recognize or reward key customers, distribution partners, salespeople, or other employees for the special role they play in your business.

By using the Corporate Rewards Exchange, you are taking advantage of one of the business world’s best kept secrets. Few people know that there is an entire field that specializes not only in providing bulk sales pricing and drop-ship services for quantity sales of branded gifts, rewards, and premiums, but also in helping your organization build long-term relationships through a wide variety of engagement strategies and tactics.

Benefits for Corporate America

As a qualified member of the Corporate Rewards Exchange incentive buying service, you will benefit from pricing and service advantages that have been available to companies like yours for over 100 years from the world’s leadings brands and retail gift card providers: the ability, as qualified corporate buyers, to get bulk pricing, as well as the extra services and support you need to engage your best customers, distribution partners, salespeople, or any of the people who help make your company a success. Incredibly, to this day, relatively few business people know about this industry.

By becoming a member of the Corporate Rewards Exchange buying service, organizations can purchase corporate gifts, rewards, and premiums in bulk directly from the incentive, fulfillment, and distribution companies authorized by the leading brands to serve the corporate marketplace. These authorized distributors provide bulk pricing and the types of specialized services that can make sure that your gift, reward, or premium program gets maximum relationship-building impact. Depending on the brand you seek, you will be able to select from a variety of authorized distributors who can meet your needs, based on your quantity, pricing, and service requirements.

The Corporate Rewards Exchange also provides valuable free information under Knowledge on how to maximize the results of your gift, reward, premium or other engagement strategies, as well as a list of companies that can help you with full-service engagement and incentive programs.

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Benefits for Incentive, Marketing, and Promotional Firms

As in advertising and other areas of marketing, this field has incentive, marketing services companies, incentive representatives, promotional products and other firms that provide reward products and services for their clients. These companies can equally benefit from the Corporate Rewards Exchange buying service, which electronically manages the commissions or two-step pricing they traditionally receive as part of their ability to provide gift, reward, and premium strategies to their clients. As in the advertising field, these margins make it possible for corporations to get expertise from these incentive and marketing companies at the best possible value.

The Corporate Rewards Exchange buying service is designed to create new efficiencies for the many specialists serving this field, including full-service performance improvement companies, incentive companies, promotional consultants, incentive representatives, and other marketing services firms, while making sure they get the margins or commissions they are entitled to as qualified resellers.

Points Programs

Through licensees of its sister technology group, the Incentive Business Exchange (IncentiveBusinessExchange.com), you can obtain powerful technology for creating complete engagement portals for any target audience using the Solata Engagement Manager, as well as the Universal Rewards Platform for carefully customized reward strategies for your audience using the best combination of products and vendors for your program, audience and budget.

Because the most effective engagement strategies involve experience in integrating all of the elements that go into a successful engagement or incentive program, these solutions are sold through incentive, promotional, and marketing company licensees. Click here for a list of charter Solata Engagement Manager and Universal Rewards Platform licensees.

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Concierge Service

Can’t find it online? The Corporate Rewards Exchange probably will know where to find it. Click here to make your request. There is no obligation.

Pricing, Shipping, Sales Taxes, Payments

After becoming approved members, corporate end-users and incentive, marketing, and promotional companies will receive a user name and password that enables them to see the standard corporate discounts for bulk purchases, based on quantity and delivery requirements, and based on whether they are an end-user or reseller. If you require particularly large quantities, or expect to become a regular customer of a particular vendor, you will be able to submit a Request for Pricing to potentially gain enhanced pricing on a specific order or on future orders.

An estimate of freight is provided with each order. If you are ready to place your order, you may click where indicated to request a final shipping quote before submitting your final order.

Sales tax will be applied to all shipments made within the state of New York, and to other states based on your location and the authorized distributors from which you buy. Sales taxes will be clearly shown at the bottom of each Order Confirmation.

You can pay via credit card, e-check, or via purchase order by applying for credit when you apply for membership or make your first order.

Resellers may apply for sales tax exemption by submitting a re-sale certificate. Corporations can request an exemption for sales taxes if they certify that they are responsible for use taxes levied in their own states.

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Member Qualifications

The Corporate Rewards Exchange buying service is for businesses only, including corporations, charitable organizations, and other institutions using branded products as gifts, rewards, or other ways to build relationships with their key customers, distribution partners, salespeople, and other employees. Products and services purchased through the Corporate Rewards Exchange may only be re-sold by qualified incentive, marketing, and promotional companies to business organizations using them for the above-mentioned purposes. Members fill out an electronic Membership Application form in order to qualify to purchase through the system and will generally receive a response within one business day or less if their application is approved or denied.

Terms and Conditions

By joining the Corporate Rewards Exchange buying service, you agree that your organization will only use the branded products purchased for corporate gifts, rewards, premiums or related programs, subject to the terms and conditions of each participating company clearly spelled out on their terms and conditions page. Resellers may not offer these products and services to companies for anything other than rewards, gifts, incentives, or premiums, unless explicitly permitted by a participating brand.

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Governance

The Corporate Rewards Exchange buying service is owned by Engagement Technology LLC, Tarrytown, N.Y., a provider of Web-based technologies that support customer, distribution partner, sales, and other employee engagement strategies. To maximize the integrity of the system, the business practices and terms and conditions of the Corporate Rewards Exchange are overseen by a Board of Governors who help ensure that the rules and procedures are transparent and precisely as presented in the business practices of the Web site. These policies are embodied in a Business Process Manual maintained by the Board of Governors.

The inaugural Board of Governors are:

Jimmy Beyer, Sony
Dennis Borst, Patriot Marketing Group
Mary Anne Commotto, Partners for Incentives
Jun Fabella, Maritz
Adrienne Forrest, Bulova
Todd Hanson, Catalyst Performance Group
Saro Hartounian, Harco Industries
Mary Manor, TJ Maxx
Bob Mazzone, EXP Group
Jeff Sheridan, Quality Incentives
Andy Tobutt, Certifigift
Cicely Wylde-Oubrerie, Bath & Body Works
Joe Zanone, Movado

Customer Service

You may call the Corporate Rewards Exchange customer service line at 1-866-488-5449, 9-5 on business days, with the exception of national holidays. You may also email us at info@corporaterewardsxchange.com with any questions you may have.

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