Magellan Promotions Named 2025 Future 50 Company Winner

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2025 Future 50 Company
We’re proud to share that Magellan Promotions has once again been named a Future 50 company by BizTimes Media, in partnership with the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce (MMAC).

This marks our fourth time receiving the honor, a reflection of our sustained growth and the strength of the relationships we’ve built with our clients and partners.

Now in its 36th year, the Future 50 program recognizes the fastest-growing privately owned companies in southeastern Wisconsin. The award highlights businesses that are creating jobs, fueling innovation, and making a lasting economic impact in the region.

“I’m incredibly proud of how our team delivers world-class service and value to our clients, helping them succeed with their marketing campaigns. Their dedication and hard work, day in and day out, elevate who we are and what we do — and are the reason we’ve earned this honor for the fourth time. We’re deeply grateful to our clients and partners for the trust they place in us.” said Michael Wolaver, Founder/Captain of Magellan Promotions.

Thank you to all who have supported us. We’re excited for what’s next.

2025 Future 50 Company

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Variable Data Best Practices

  • At the quoting stage of your project, please let us know how many fields of variable data your piece will have as this can affect pricing.
  • Data should be provided to us as an Excel spreadsheet with only the applicable data included.
  • Verbiage for variable data fields on artwork file should match up exactly with data fields on spreadsheet.
  • Spacing on artwork must allow for longest data entries. We recommend that your designer tests this in advance to confirm that the fields in the design can fit your longest pieces of data.

Postage Permits

We are happy to mail using a client’s USPS non-profit number. Here are a few best practices for this to go smoothly. Let our team know up front on the project so we can make sure to get the information we need right away. 

While our mail house does prefer to use their permit number for the mailing, we can use the client’s permit, If using their permit number, ensure there is enough postage to cover the mailing.

The information we need to in order to use a client’s nonprofit number includes the following:

  • CRID (customer registration ID)
  • Non-Profit Authorization Number (with USPS, not their nonprofit number for the university)
  • Non-profit indicia
  • Return address that is on file with USPS for the non-profit authorization number
  • Permit number

Formatting the Mailing List

Our account team will advise on specific requirements for your project’s mailing list.  We generally recommend these best practices to format the mailing list:
  • Send your data in a spreadsheet, saving it in the comma-separated values (CSV) format
  • International addresses must be separated from domestic addresses
  • Domestic addresses should at least contain data fields for “first name”, “last name”, “address 1”, “address 2”, “city”, “state” and “ZIP code”