Grand Reunion Updates #3

I had the pleasure of spending a few days in Kuching this week and discussed various aspects of the Grand Reunion with the Organizing Committee. There has been good progress. Despite minor hitches, we're well on our way to putting on "the Mother of All Reunions" !!!

Today is 25th November 1976, and the headlines from the New Straits Times includes a million dollar drug haul on a train, detention of red suspects and Chinese troops being sent to Fukien in China. Exciting stuff !  I also note that there are four prominent ads on the front page - Bata (Essex) shoes, Waterman pen, Esso "Uniflo" motor oil and Yashica cameras. All four brands are still around in one form or another, showing the power of advertising.

Now for the updates. This week, I'd like to bring up a couple of sponsorship opportunities for the consideration of company leaders who wish to capitalise on this event that many (even non-Josephians) are talking about.

(a)  Corporate Sponsors for Gift Bags
We hope to provide each attendee of the Grand Reunion with a "gift bag", which will be used to hold the various souvenirs, awards and prizes they may have won on the night. The bag will be of good material, and feature two colours. On one side, it will have the St Joe logo, a few event title lines, and the blog address. On the other side, we have space for up to FOUR companies to feature their logo, name & a brief tagline or web address. This is good marketing space. It will be sighted by more than 80 influential people on 23rd Dec, and beyond that, we envisage that the bags will be used by their families or members of their organizations, thereby bringing even greater visibility to the sponsors. A total quantity of 100 bags will be produced.

Sponsorship fee: RM1,000
No of sponsors: Up to 4 max


(b)  Corporate Sponsors for Souvenir Pens
We hope to give a souvenir ballpoint pen to each attendee. The sponsor will have his company logo & 3 lines printed on one side of the pen, and the other side will have the words "St Joseph - Form 5 Class of 1976". A total of multi-coloured 500 pens will be produced (of which about 100 will be given out at the event, and the rest is for the sponsor to distribute later, at their own discretion).

Sponsorship fee: RM1,500
No of Sponsors: Up to 4 max

In addition, all sponsors will also get prominent links to our website for a period of 6 months.

Interested parties, please contact Ben Wong(+60128989868) or Robert Chin (+6016 8774018) as soon as possible. We will go on a first-come-first-serve basis.