Incentive Gift Card Council members, Make-A-Wish Foundation team up to brighten holidays for children and families

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Naperville, Illinois, United States of America (Free-Press-Release.com) January 12, 2012 -- Jan. 12, 2012 - NAPERVILLE, Ill. – The new year will be a little brighter for many children and their families, thanks to member companies of the Incentive Marketing Association’s Incentive Gift Card Council (IGCC), which recently presented more than $30,000 worth of gift cards to the Make-A-Wish Foundation® of Illinois, successfully concluding the Council’s second annual holiday gift card drive.

The Incentive Gift Card Council’s latest results doubled that of the first 2010 holiday gift card drive, which provides a wide variety of merchandise, travel, and entertainment gift cards to fulfill children’s wishes and assist many families in need. “We are extremely grateful to the IGCC and all its member companies for their generosity,” said Make-A-Wish Corporate Development Manager Beth Murnane.

Contributing IGCC members include:

Diamond Level – Royal Performance Group/ Shell Gift Card.

Platinum Level - Bass Pro Shops, Bed & Breakfast, Corporate Rewards, Fandango, Great Lakes Scrip Center, Marriott Individual Incentives, National Gift Card, Ovation Awards, Staples, and Travelocity.

Gold Level - Affinion Loyalty Group, Bath & Body Works, Brainstorm Logistics, Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Crutchfield Electronics, DCI Incentives, Elizabeth Arden Red Door Spas, Groupon, Jiffy Lube, Lowes Companies, Sales & Marketing Management Magazine, The Manna Group, and TJMaxx.

Silver Level - AMC Theatres, Buffalo Wild Wings, Cabela’s, Ceridian SVS, CouponTrade, Inc., Footlocker, Giftango, Hallmark Business Connections, Home Depot, Impact Consulting Group, Intelispend, JC Penney Incentive Sales, Macy’s, Omaha Steaks, Premium Incentive Products Magazine, Regal Entertainment Group, Regis Corp., SpaFinder, Spa WeekMedia Group, SVM, Vantiv, and Yard House.

Bronze Level – Legal Sea Foods, Stoner Bunting.

The IGCC Holiday Gift Campaign Committee included Rory Smith of Royal Performance Group/Shell Gift Card; Ed Brookshire of Corporate Rewards; Ed Handle of Crutchfield Electronics; Andrew Hodges of Affinion Group; Anne Jetter of Giftcertificates.com; Coleen Kyllonen of Carlson Marketing; Forest Miner of Elizabeth Arden Red Door Spas; Jim Rowins of Fandango; Ana Strahota of Great Lakes Scrip Center, and Greg Whitacre of Marriott International Incentives.

About the Incentive Gift Card Council – The Incentive Gift Card Council is a strategic industry group within the Incentive Marketing Association. The IGCC educates the incentive marketplace and the corporate community on the benefits of gift cards, including choice, value and service, and other key attributes recipients say that they want their awards to have. For more information, please visit http://www.usegiftcards.org

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CONTACTS: Sue Voyles 734.667.2005
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Karen Renk 630.369.7780
Karen@incentivemarketing.org


Incentive Gift Card Council
1601 North Bond St., Suite 303
Naperville, IL 60563
630.369.7780