Corporate Awards & Recognition
Corporate Awards & Recognition Programs That Inspire Performance
BLP’s corporate awards and recognition programs turn milestones into moments people remember. Named awards. Perpetual trophies. Years of service. Behind every great award is a story that deserves to be told: a founder who risked it all, a champion who earned it, a career that changed a company. We design the piece that carries that story forward.
Why it matters
Recognition is the difference between staying and leaving
Anyone can hand out a plaque. We design recognition pieces that command a place on the shelf and reinforce your culture every time someone looks at them.
45%
Employees who receive high-quality recognition were 45% less likely to have left their jobs two years later, according to a Gallup and Workhuman study that tracked 3,447 employees.
65%
Employees currently receiving high-quality recognition are 65% less likely to be actively looking or watching for another job, according to Gallup and Workhuman research.
22%
Only 22% of employees say they get the right amount of recognition for the work they do, according to Gallup and Workhuman. That gap is the opportunity.
When Dallas honors its best,
the awards come from Bob Lilly Promotions
Since 2019
Official Awards Partner of the Dallas Business Journal, producing the awards for all seven of its annual recognition programs.
200 Employers
When The Dallas Morning News named 200 companies Top Workplaces DFW in 2025, the awards came from Bob Lilly Promotions.
10 Straight Years
For 10 years, Highlands Residential Mortgage has trusted BLP with its annual top-producer awards, the recognition its best performers work all year to earn.
A generic award sends a generic message. Custom corporate awards tell someone that their contribution was singular, irreplaceable, and worthy of proper honor.
Corporate awards and recognition for every kind of moment
From boardrooms to center court, we design, produce, and deliver the awards that honor achievement and strengthen your brand.
Trusted by 500+ brands including American Airlines & Cook Children’s
27 years of creative excellence
Custom Trophies & Perpetual Awards
One-of-a-kind pieces designed to become iconic: championship trophies like the Lamar Hunt Family Trophy, annual gala centerpieces, and named awards that define an event for generations.
Corporate Event & Gala Awards
From concept to keynote stage. Gala centerpieces, honoree awards, and top-table pieces designed to match the prestige of the event and the person receiving them.
Sports & Championship Trophies
From ATP championships to company tournaments, we design trophies that players, teams, and fans remember long after the final score.
Employee Recognition Awards
Service milestones, President’s Club, top performer, retirement. Awards your people will proudly display on their desk, not bury in a drawer.
Deal Toys & Transaction Commemoratives
Celebrate closed deals, IPOs, mergers, and funding rounds with custom pieces your team will keep for years.
Donor & Client Recognition
Honor the partners, donors, and clients who make your mission possible. Donor walls, named-giving displays, and appreciation pieces that reflect what the relationship is truly worth.
Crystal, Glass & Acrylic Awards
Timeless materials for timeless achievements. We design crystal, glass, and acrylic awards that catch the light and hold the memory, from executive desk pieces to full-scale event trophies.
Branded Packaging & Presentation
The unboxing matters. Custom presentation cases, layered reveal boxes, and packaging designed so the award lands with the weight it deserves.
Awards Program Design & Consulting
The best recognition programs run every year without anyone chasing them. We design the whole system: award tiers, materials, milestone structures, and a cohesive awards identity built to renew annually.
Why Us
Corporate awards and recognition programs that produce engagement and real results for your business.
Five reasons companies hand their recognition program to BLP and keep it there.
Story-first design
Every award starts with your brand DNA, your values, your culture, your legacy. Whether we design from scratch or curate the right piece, the result is an award that could only belong to you.
The entire awards industry, curated for you
We know every vendor and every material, so you don’t have to. From fully custom one-of-a-kind trophies to premium in-stock awards, we bring you the right piece for the moment and the budget. No guesswork. No settling.
Program management that scales
Awards programs are operationally complex and unforgiving: engraving data, recipient lists, annual updates, naming conventions, title changes. We manage every detail year over year, which is why our longest programs are measured in decades, not orders.
Any material, any scale
Crystal, glass, acrylic, metal, wood, stone, mixed media: from a single executive piece to 500 gala awards. We match the material to the moment and the budget to the vision.
One team, start to finish
Design, sourcing, production, data management, packaging, and shipping. One dedicated partner who knows your program inside and out, not a new rep every time you reorder.
How it works
Great awards and recognition don’t happen by accident
No shortcuts. No generic options. Just a proven process built around your brand, your moment, and your people.
Here’s how we turn your vision into recognition worth keeping:
Discover
We learn the story behind the award, who it honors, what it represents, and why it matters. We dig into your brand standards, your event, your budget, and your timeline so every decision that follows is rooted in purpose, not assumption.
Curate & Create
Whether we’re designing a trophy that exists nowhere else or sourcing the perfect piece from across the industry, this is where options take shape. We present concepts, renderings, and curated selections tailored to your brand DNA, not a generic catalog dump.
Perfect the details
Engraving copy, recipient data, materials, finishes, packaging: we manage it all. Every proof is reviewed, every name is checked, every piece is inspected before it leaves our hands. Because when someone’s legacy is on the line, there’s no room for “close enough.”
Deliver the moment
Custom packaging. On-time delivery. White-glove coordination if your event calls for it. When the name is called and the award changes hands, everything before that moment was us.
FEATURED PROJECT
Dallas Open: The Lamar Hunt Family Trophy
ATP Dallas Open Men’s Indoor Champions’ Trophy
Business Need: The Lamar Hunt Family Trophy sits alongside the AFC Championship trophy and the U.S. Open Cup as one of three major awards bearing the Hunt name. BLP designed and produced it from scratch in collaboration with the Hunt Family and the Dallas Open, a one-of-a-kind perpetual championship trophy featuring Dallas’s iconic Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge.
It’s been presented to ATP champions since 2023, and the tournament was upgraded to an ATP 500 event in 2025. Three years. Three champions. One BLP trophy.
BLP Services: Design, 3D Rendering, Sourcing, Production, Quality Assurance, Logistics Coordination
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Build my corporate awards lookbook
Tell us about your event, your brand, and the moment you’re trying to create, and our team will curate a personalized lookbook of award options built for you. Custom concepts. Curated selections. Recommendations matched to your budget and timeline.
No catalog browsing. No guesswork. Just the right options for your moment.
Testimonials
Trusted by brands that demand excellence
Real results. Real relationships. Straight from the brands we’re proud to call partners.
“BLP has handled our top-producer awards for a decade, and I’ve never once had to worry about them. The names are right, the awards are beautiful, and everything shows up on time. I can’t imagine doing this program with anyone else.”
Brenda Harmon
Highlands Residential Mortgage
“We appreciate the collaboration and camaraderie we’ve developed with your group as Boardwalk Pipelines’ company store provider. I can’t say enough great things about the working relationship we’ve been able to develop over the last several months … truly outstanding customer service and partnership in our collective efforts.”
Maurie Bedwell
Manager, Supply Chain Services
“Bob Lilly Promotions has a talent for finding promotional products that are both cost-effective and memorable. Our target audience frequently responds with ‘wow, this is the best giveaway item I’ve ever received’ – which says it all.”
Nikki Baulisch
Deca Dental Group
“Bob Lilly Promotions was instrumental in helping launch our Touchdown Club initiative. It was a huge success, and I don’t think we would have gotten off the ground without the help and guidance from the BLP Team.”
Blake Bozman
Captain’s Dad Highland Park High School – 2025
“BLP is our go-to resource for all of our branded promotional products and premium incentives. They offer great creativity and help us navigate problem spots in the execution of our programs before they become problems!”
Hannah Fauveau
AdvoCare Senior Project Manager
“Bob Lilly Promotions did an amazing job of pulling together the engagement package for us. It really got the MBA Bootcamp off to a great start!”
Aaron Kastner
Dallas Cowboys Football Club Sponsorship Team
“The Bob Lilly Promotions Team is a fantastic partner. They executed perfectly for us on every aspect of our sponsorship promotions.”
Christina Juarez
Field Marketing Manager, Brown-Foreman
“BLP has been an excellent partner. We were excited to find a company that has the technical resources to integrate with our CRM and the operational capabilities to handle the entire process.”
Robert Rardin
Marketing Director
“Bob Lilly Promotions supported my startup energy company from beginning to end. They really had amazing insight into building our brand, logo and message and then translated that into a full marketing approach delivering web design, tradeshow marketing materials and collateral, promotional give-aways and one page leave behinds.”
John Varnell
Executive Vice President
“After two subpar promo vendors, Bob Lilly Promotions has been a breath of fresh air! Their superior quality with consideration to our startup budget has been a 10 in my book! Megan has been a huge help on product recommendations, logo enhancements and so much more! Cannot say enough great things, you won’t be disappointed.”
Maggie Harris
Ready to create something worth keeping?
Most projects start with a simple conversation: tell us about your event, your people, and the moment you want to create. We’ll handle the rest.
Frequently asked questions about custom awards and trophies
Who makes custom corpoorate awards and trophies in Dallas?
BLP designs and produces custom awards and recognition pieces from our Dallas headquarters, from years-of-service awards to one-of-a-kind trophies. Our team designed the Lamar Hunt Family Trophy for the Dallas Open, one of only three major trophies bearing the Hunt name.
What’s the difference between catalog awards and custom-designed awards?
Catalog awards are pre-made pieces with your engraving added. Custom awards are designed from scratch around your brand, your moment, and your story. BLP does both: we select from tens of thousands of options when a proven piece fits, and design from zero when the moment deserves its own icon.
What are good years-of-service awards for employees?
Pieces worth keeping: custom awards tied to real milestones, premium gifts employees choose themselves, and recognition that names the specific contribution. The strongest programs run year-round with consistent cadence, because 22% of employees say they get the right amount of recognition, according to Gallup and Workhuman, and the gap is the opportunity.
Can BLP manage a recognition program year over year?
Yes, and full program management is the point. BLP handles the recipient data, engraving, annual updates, ordering windows, and delivery schedules, so your awards program runs on time every year without anyone chasing a vendor.
What is a perpetual trophy?
A perpetual trophy stays with the organization while each year’s winner is added to it, engraved plate by engraved plate, building a running history of the honor. BLP designs perpetual trophies, deal toys, donor recognition, and championship pieces built to carry a legacy.