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Branding: The Importance of Mission

Over the next few months, Monterey Company will be featuring a series of articles on the finer points of branding your company, why its necessary and how the products created by the Monterey company can serve you in building a thriving business with a recognizable identity. We will also be taking you on a bit of an inside journey into Monterey’s own brand and what ...

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Going Green

It’s one thing for individuals to “go green” by recycling and reusing products, but it’s another thing for a growing business. The Monterey Company, a leading lapel pin manufacturer based in Southern California, has just started using environmentally safe packing materials. The “green peanuts” the company uses to pack and repack their custom made coins, medallions and lapel pins from overseas, are made of organic ...

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Displaying the Flag

The U.S. Flag is always displayed at half-staff, or half-mast, as a sign of respect or mourning. Traditionally, the flag is flown at half-mast during Memorial Day, the first Monday in May, to honor fallen U.S. servicemen and women. The flag is flown from dawn (first light) until dusk (last light) on that day. To properly fly the U.S. flag at half-staff, the protocol is ...

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A Cat Friendly Place

Once upon a time, an orange tabby and his brother with black and white spots, started hanging around Café Aroma. They were cold and hungry. Stray kittens are uncommon in the Alpine Village of Idyllwild, so the staff started taking care of them. One server brought in an old down comforter, they fed them delicious scraps and the outside heaters became their favorite napping places. ...

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The Monterey Company Licensed Vendor with Destination ImagiNation

IDYLLWILD, CA, FEB 15, 2008—The Monterey Company, one of the nation’s leading suppliers of lapel pins and military challenge coins, has been awarded the Destination ImagiNation (DI) license this year. The Destination ImagiNation Flagship Program is the world’s largest creative problem solving program for young people from kindergarten through college. For the past 25 years, it has fostered creativity, problem-solving skills and teamwork. Under this ...

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What’s in a name

If you do a search on Google, you’ll find that The Monterey Company is probably the only national pin supplier that doesn’t have the word “pin” in its name. “That was a deliberate decision,” said President Paul Stark. “Putting ‘pin’ in our name might bring us up faster on Google and other search engines, but it doesn’t define who we are.” Although it accounts for a ...

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