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August 30, 2001 |
Contact: Lisa Kulow
Patch Products, Inc.
1400 E. Inman Pkwy.
Beloit, WI 53511
(800) 524-4263 x 239
lisak@patchproducts.com
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Patch Products, TacoTime® Deal Kids a Winning Hand
Beloit, Wis. -- Game company Patch Products has partnered with TacoTime® restaurants for a six-week promotion, scheduled to run between October -
November 2001. TacoTime restaurants will include mini decks of Patch Products’ Blurt!® Big Deal® cards in Kids Meals. The mini decks will also include
a $2.00 off coupon good at over 140 ShopKo stores nationwide for Patch Products’ Blurt!®, Mad Gab®, Best of TriBond®, Malarky® and Three for
All™ board games, valid through January 13, 2002. In addition, all five games and ShopKo will be featured on 40,000 TacoTime Kids Meal bags and 200
window clings.
“TacoTime attracts a great deal of parents and families, so Patch is reaching our core demographic with this partnership," says Frank Beres, Promotions
Manager at Patch Products. "Plus, the timing couldn’t be better, heading into the peak of the holiday shopping season."
According to Debbie Porter, TacoTime VP of Marketing, “The Blurt! game is a great tie-in for our Kids Meal program. The game is fun and educational,
and fits in well with our family focus.”
Patch Products, headquartered in Beloit, Wis., is a leading manufacturer and marketer of family entertainment products. Board games, card games, puzzles
and foam sports toys are the core product lines with such top-selling brands as TriBond®, Blurt!®, Mad Gab®, Malarky®, PuzzlePatch® and Zoam®
Light Tracker®.
TacoTime has been an industry leader in quality quick service Mexican food for more than 40 years. Ron Fraedrick originally created the fresh, craveable
taste of TacoTime in 1960 in Eugene, Ore. Today, Taco Time International, Inc. supports more than 170 domestic locations with additional units
worldwide.
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