Did you know – Christmas Marketing Trivia
Posted on 09. Dec, 2009 by admin in Did you Know
• “Rudolph the Reindeer” was actually created by Montgomery Ward in the late 1930’s for an in store holiday promotion. The rest is history.
• Coca Cola was the first beverage company to use Santa for a winter promotion.
• Hallmark introduced its first Christmas cards in 1915, five years after the founding of the company.
• More diamonds are sold around Christmas than any other time of the year.
• According to a 1995 survey, 7 out of 10 British dogs get Christmas gifts from their doting owners.
• During the Christmas buying season, Visa cards alone are used an average of 5,340 times every minute in the United States
• During the Christmas/Hanukkah season, more than 1.76 billion candy canes will be made.
• Frustrated at the lack of interest in his new toy invention, Charles Pajeau hired several midgets, dressed them in elf costumes, and had them play with “Tinker Toys” in a display window at a Chicago department store during the Christmas season in 1914. This publicity stunt made the construction toy an instant hit. A year later, over a million sets of Tinker Toys had been sold.
