Gift Cards

Plastic gift cards are everywhere and more and more are finding their way into consumers' wallets every year. Did you know:

* Sales of gift cards reached nearly $100 BILLION in 2008.
* Breakage" on gift cards is estimated at the 6-8% range - a nice source of additional revenue.
* 2009 gift card sales through grocery, drug stores, and other “outside locations” is expected to grow 30% over 2008.

Are you ready for a gift card program? Gift card programs require four components:

* Point of purchase system
* Transaction processsing vendor - or a self-contained gift card system (on site)
* Card design and manufacturing
* Imaging & encoding (personalizing each gift card to tie it to a unique stored value account)

Spectrum Card is a full-service plastic card supplier. Our team of professionals is ready and eager to help you put together a successful gift card program. We directly manage the card design, printing, manufacturing and personalization process, but we can also recommend solutions providers to handle the set-up and processing of your program payments and transactions.

Contact a card production specialist to learn more!