P&I Postscripts

ESPRIT: a Hong-Kong-based apparel retailer, plans to expand its gift card program to the U.S. to coincide with the reopening of a flagship store in New York City last month and four new U.S. stores. The card’s design features the "spirit of Times Square." The retailer also plans to offer its electronic gift cards at its 25 Canadian stores by the end of the year. Esprit offers gift cards in eight European countries.

SAGE TECHNOLOGIES: has added a searchable field for UPIC, the Universal Promotional Identification Code, to its flagship research tool SAGE-Online for the promotional products industry. The change allows users another way to locate suppliers and products. The database contains more than 500,000 products and listings of 4,000 suppliers.