May 8, 2010

Get Ready to Meet regreet

Minneapolis, MN – regreet is “hopping over” to the National Stationery Show, May 16-19 to showcase its greeting card re-use kits and a greeting card organizer. As the world’s first kits to reuse greeting cards, regreet’s greeting kits and card organizer have both been named “Best New Product” finalists. regreet invites people to stop by booth 1324 to see the products and enter for a chance to win a free iPad.

“We’re asking people to ‘Hop into our pad for an iPad,'” says regreet president and founder Christy Eichers. “We know it will be a really fun way to meet people and show them our great products.”

Giving the hot new iPad to one lucky show attendee makes sense for regreet, which is making a splash with its own hot new products that are both finalists in two of the National Stationery Show’s “Best New Product” competitions. The regreet greeting card reuse kit was selected as a finalist in the “Think Green” category, and the regreet greeting card organizer is a finalist in the “Desk Accessories” category.

“We’re excited to introduce our products to the National Stationery Show and honored they were selected as Best New Product finalists,” says Eichers. “Our re-greeting kits hit on three trends – they help consumers stay connected for less money, reflect people’s desires to be more green and blend the best of the paper and cyber world.”

With the average American household purchasing 30 cards annually, regreet greeting kits offer eco- and budget-conscious consumers the opportunity to get more mileage from the greeting cards they send and receive. regreet greeting kits use chic, easy-to-use labels, note paper and envelopes to make reusing greeting cards a snap. In addition, regreet users can track the journey of their cards online, taking reuse from an eco-chore to a fun way to connect online.

A related product, the regreet greeting card organizer helps consumers keep track of that perfect card they would like to send or “regreet” to friends. Arranged by month, each page of the organizer features a write-in calendar to keep track of birthdays and anniversaries, as well as a pocket to hold cards for that month. These can be new cards, or great used cards the consumer wants to “regreet” using regreet’s chic and easy-to-use labels and envelopes.

“I would always find the perfect card for a June birthday in February and buy it,” say Eichers, “Then I would find it tucked in a drawer or something in October, well after the birthday has passed!”

The card organizer helps well-intentioned people like Eichers keep track of the birthdays and anniversaries and the cards they’d like to send or “regreet.” In addition, the regreet card organizer includes two additional pockets to keep track of cards for other occasions and regreet greeting kit materials.

About regreet™
regreet greeting kits enable customers to reuse old greeting cards, reducing the number of greeting cards that enter our waste stream and saving consumers money. Regreeted cards provide more whimsy with less waste—helping senders look good and save the planet at the same time. In addition customers are able to track the journey of their card online in a unique system based on Google Maps. regreet, encourages people to reduce, reuse and recycle goods is just the beginning. In addition, regreet supports nonprofit beneficiaries who are improving the world in important ways. Every time customers purchase a regreet kit, they get to vote for the nonprofit they think is most deserving. Each year, regreet tallies the votes to proportionally distribute donations to the nonprofits. regreet was launched in October 2009 and has been featured on Martha Stewart Living Radio, Apartment Therapy and several other local and national news outlets. Learn more about regreet at www.regreet.com.