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SAVE THE DATE SEPT. 23, SUNDAY

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With Man it is Impossible but with God all Things are Possible

He will discuss many major aspects of the Gift Design, Gift Creation, and

Gift Basket Fundraising Business

www.ThomasCatanese.comhttp://thomascatanese.com/PDFs/Mothers-Day-Oscar-Gift.pdf

Google; Who is Thomas Catanese, Nowco, Godfather Gift Basket Business & Fundraiser Symposium ExpertGo to; YOUTUBE, search Thomas Catanese, Nowco

Delaware Valley Premiere Gift Creation &

Gift Basket SymposiumSun, Sept. 23thCheckin 2:00 PM- Symposium-2:45

Plymouth Township Community Center Jolly Road and Germantown Pike

Presents his 107 National Gift Basket Performance

Mothers Day Gold Oscar Giftwith 50 Photos of her Life

From the Desk of Tom Catanese Google; Thomas Catanese.com, Nowco , Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462 Google;Who is? Americas Gift Basket Godfather Sales & Marketing Expert Where Gift Basket Creation is an Art Form To place a Symposium Seat Reservation please e-mail us or call us! Tickets,$49.00 tccat523@aol.com, C -610-331-3863 www.thomascatanese.com Greeting If you have taken notice of my ad in the Delaware Valley magazine then let me give you more insight as to what you will hear, what you will see and what I will do in front of you on Sunday Sept. 23, at the Plymouth Community Center. Plymouth Meeting. On 8 display table’s around the room will be standing 40” display boards with 50 color photos on each panel. That’s 400 color photos. Also on the display tables you will see 20 unique Gift Creations priced from $29.95 to $200. I will provide you with 15 different Trade Secrets. Here are the topics that I will cover; Gift Design Gift Creation Gift Color Gift Baskets Gift Construction Gift Elevation Product Control Gift Accents Gift Theme Gift Packaging Cello vs Shrink Film Gift Stacking Gift Cost Sports Gifts Celebrity Gifts Is it Legal? Gift Fundraising Gift Sales Money Tree Wine Gifts If you have a camera phone that’s all you need. If not be sure to bring your own camera. Please bring a pad and pen as you will want to save the trade secrets. I will be sharing many inside industry trade secrets that will save you time and money In 1967 I pioneered and introduced SHRINK FILM PACKAGING to the Gift Basket Industries in America. Since then I have presented 106 National and International Gift Design, Gift Creation & Gift Basket Seminars and Symposium in every major city in the US! I was invited to address the International French Women in Wine Expo in Paris. I was invited to address the International British Women in Wine Expo in London. I was invited to address the Canadian Fancy Food and Wine Convention in Toronto. I want to personally invite you to attend my upcoming Sept. 23 rd Gift Design, Gift Creation & Gift Basket Symposium at the Plymouth Community Center in Plymouth Meeting. If you love to create Gifts Designs, Gift Creations and Gift Baskets then this Symposium will more than satisfy that emotion. I want you to come believing that you will see Gifts that you have never seen before!

Here are just a few of my Industry Credentials! I have designed over 700 Original Gift Designs in five industries. The Wine Industry, the Chocolate & Confection Industries, the Fancy Food Industries, the Florist Industries and the Fruit Industries. In 1998 the International Hotel Association presented me with a Gold Medal for Life Time Achievement in Gift Design at Carnegie Hall in New York City. If you received anything at Carnegie Hall you must have done something Special. Take a ride on my 150 page website. Look for the YOUTUBE logo. Click on it,,,,,,,, you should see 12 DVD’s that are up on YOUTUBE. Almost all of my DVD’s are 90 to 120 minutes long. But YOUTUBE will only give us 20 minutes. Here are the items you should copy and paste. http://thomascatanese.com/wrapping-video2008.html Life Smiles Video – This Video will show you all my Hollywood Fantasy Gifts I designed for Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Sinatra, Sly Stallone, Oprah, Dynasty, Dallas, Love Boat and the Rolls Royce Gift plus the Raiders of the Lost Ark Gift I did for Steven Spielberg! http://thomascatanese.com/PDFS/National-Convention-Meeting-Speaker-Profile.pdf Best contains all five DVD’s. This is the San Francisco GiftBasket Symposium 2 hours, shows all attendees! https://www.youtube.com/embed/XIjmYXa2iG4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZXrpjWZREw – How to Celebrate Your Life with Wine and Roses filmed at the Flower Show in Phila. All Wine and Floral Arrangements plus Silk Flower decorated Jerobaum Champagne bottle! Find a Gift Expert Button http://thomascatanese.com/videos.htm 24 page https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cL_c2FM6FE – Atlantic City National Sports League Licensed Products Video. Over 30 Sports Gifts on Display http://thomascatanese.com/gallery.htm 12 page Gift Baskets with over 108 Gallery photos

Here are a number of Reviews and Testimonials references that Mr. Catanese has received over the years! Dear Tom I want to thank you for all of your help during MGM GRAND HOTEL’s Grand re-opening. Helping us with designing all of the hundreds of VIP Room Service Gift Baskets going up stairs into the Hotel was really a Gift to me! You made me look good! Please use my letter as a reference anytime in the future. Best Regards, Bruno Wehren, Executive Chef MGM GRAND HOTEL LV From Guy Urbain Executive Dir, Int. Wine & Confection Expo Paris To Mr. Catanese Tom, everyone here at the Expo found your Confection & Wine Gift Symposium Magnificent! Many of our so called Experts in Chocolate were very much impressed. Best Regards Guy! From; Anthony Matthews Food From Britain Senior Dir. To my Dear Friend Tom I told many of my friends in London to be sure to sit in on your Gift Creation Symposium held at the Food & Drink Expo in London. The E/Mails that I have received were that your program was really outstanding. They said there were no empty seats! Jolly Good Tom! Tony Mr. Thomas Catanese Thomas Catanese & Co Dear Tom This was the first time that one of our Gift Design Seminars was sold out. It was the first time that retailers asked us to hold a second Seminar. Your Gift Creation presentation was unquestionable the best program we have had here at the Calif. Gift Show. The second program was standing room only! WOW, Tom Debbie Gold Calif. Gift Show Special Projects Coordinator From Peter Clark Senior Dir. Merchandising Godiva Chocolatier Dear Tom I don’t know what you did to our Nat. Store managers but they want you back next year! All they could talk about was your Gift Design and Gift Packaging Seminar. Only the Best! Peter Clark Dear Mr. Catanese Many friends of mine use to tell me that I should attend one of your Seminars. Well I have been in the Gift Basket and Balloon business for over 10 years. I attended your Hartford Seminar and I must tell you that I picked up 10 new trade secrets that have put money in my pocket! Where is your next program?

Anna Souchuck, Scranton, PA Hey, Mr. C I saw your ad in the Fancy Food magazine. So I decided to attend. Your program helped me jump over at least 3 years of the learning curve. I came home with over 30 photos of the gifts on display. Thank you for being my Gift Basket Guardian Angel. Rebecca, New York City. Dear Mr. Cantanese I want to complement you on your handout I received at your Phila. Candy Show Seminar. I have attended many Chocolate & Confection Educational programs. I am new to the industry but you laid out a simple but very easy to pick up packing & stacking step by step program. Now I know how to Shrink wrap a Chocolate Gift without melting the Chocolates. I am interested in viewing your Videos. Thank You! Phyllis Giannone Dear Tom The staff and I here at Walt Disney World want to thank you for spending an afternoon with us and giving us the inside scoop on using your Magic Wand Heat Sealer and Shrink Bag Maker. You should be doing standup comic. You had my staff laughing out loud! When your down this way again please let us know we would like to have you back! Cindy Dear Tom On behalf of our boss George Russ we want to thank you for flying all the way out here to Medford, OR to present your Gift Design & Gift Basket Seminar for Harry & David staff. After you left that PM and the next day all the buzz was about Tom’s Presentation and all the funny joke’s you injected into the program! Your creativity is great! Carmen Perotte Dear Tom After the Seminar was over our entire members committee went out to dinner. Every comment that was made by each committee person was, ,,,,, look at how he did the Wine Chair, and how he did the Dallas Cowboys Gifts, and it went on and on. You Wowed our members. We are hoping you will come back next year and bring other New ideas! The Beer Party Boxes were the hit of the program! Our members throw out thousand’s of Wine cartons a year. The Recycling not only saves Money but makes us Money! Reuben Kugat, Pres. Texas Package Store Assn, Austin TX.

• Presented 106 National Sales, Marketing Gift Creation • Business Seminars & Symposium’s across America and Europe!

Listed below are the major Seminars and Symposiums

6 Symposium’s for International Fancy Food & Confection Shows

• Harry and David, Medford, Oregon • Godiva Chocolatier Convention

• L A Giftware Show • Walt Disney World, Grand Floridian Hotel

• 10 Symposiums for the Phila. National Candy & Gift Shows • Hickory Farms of Ohio, Honolulu, Hawaii • Rocky Mt. Chocolate Shops Convention

• 3 Symposiums for the Dallas World Trade Mart • ILL State Wine and Spirit Convention

• Orlando Gift Show • 4 Wine and Spirit Guild Convention

• Chicago Gift Show • New York Gift Show • Boston Gift Show

• Ohio State Unv. Seminar • San Francisco Gourmet Show

• DISCUS Liquor Ind. Assoc • Nat. Liquor Store Conv. Las Vegas • Napa Valley Wine Basket Seminar

• Las Vegas Hotel Amenities Seminar • 3 Texas Package Store Assn.

• Denver Gift Show • Malley’s Chocolate University • Mass Wine and Spirit Expo

• Teleflora Convention • FTD Convention

• New Orleans Gift Show • The Washington International Fancy Food Show

• British Food & Drink Expo, London • The International French Fancy Confection Show, Paris

• London Giftware Symposium, Ritz Hotel • 3 National Wine and Spirits Store Conventions • San Francisco International Fancy Food Show

• Chicago Int. Fancy Food Show • New York Metro Wine & Spirit Show • New Jersey Liquor Store Convention

• Maryland State Wine Store Convention • Columbus Gift Show

Specialty Food Magazine NASFT The International Voice of the Fancy Food, Wine and Confection Industries in America Sponsor of the International Fancy Food Show International Fancy Food and Confection Association New York & San Francisco 2015 Leadership Nominee

ThomasCatanese.com l Categories: Membership; Events | Tags: Business; Leadership; Philanthropy; Social Issue; Vision

Award Nominee Categories: Vision, Creative Gift Design & Business Leadership

Tom Catanese founded his Fancy Gift Packaging Corporation in 1967, and since then he has conceived, designed and created more than 1,000 original gift basket designs. He has educated over 10,000 gift basket retailers at seminars and symposiums across the U.S. and abroad and produced nine educational DVDs on sales and marketing of specialty food and wine gift baskets. Catanese’s creativity, talent business expertise have been a driving force throughout his career in the five industries he has served! He continues to inspire his fellow retailers. Catanese has presented 105 National Gift Food Sales, Marketing and Gift Design since 1977. He was invited to address the British Food and Drink Expo in London and the International French Wine & Confection Expo in Paris where he presented his Gift Business Sales, Marketing and Gift Creation Symposiums! He is famous for creating three Rolls Royce Hollywood Celebrity Convertible Gifts and filling them with World Class Foods and giant Champagne bottles. In 2007, Catanese founded, Save Our Children’s Future, a drug education program. Through presentations and an online resource guide, Catanese hopes to empower and educate parents on the effects of illegal drugs so that they can defend their children lives.

Thank you for spending some time with me today. If you attend my Symposium On Sept. 23 I will present you with many new Gift Concepts! Sincerely Yours

Tom Catanese