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5 unusual facts about Visa Inc.


Alice Springs Reptile Centre

Reptiles from the centre have featured in National Geographic Magazine, Wild Relations - Natural Born Cheats on ABC, an American Visa television commercial, New Zealand's The Bounty Hunters television show on TV2, Steve Irwin's Great Escapes on Discovery's Travel Channel and Animal Emergency on Channel 9 Australia.

Dashaveyor

The Dashaveyor concept started with Stanley Dashew, a prolific inventor who is best known for building the embossing machines used to produce the BankAmericard, the first plastic bank credit card system, which later evolved into Visa.

Karen Sortito

For the next film in the James Bond franchise, Tomorrow Never Dies, Sortito created a $100 million promotional campaign that included tie-ins with Visa, L'Oréal, Ericsson, Heineken, Avis rental cars and Omega watches.

ORCA card

An Autoload automatically adds transportation products to an ORCA card on a regular basis using a Visa or MasterCard.

Superfad

Some of the most well-known campaigns Superfad has produced include Visa's 2008 Summer Olympics campaign, PlayStation 3's "Universe of Entertainment", Honda's "Crave", Durex's "Get It On", Diet Pepsi's "56 States", and Sprint's "What's Happening Now".


Derek Vanlint

He worked on advertisements for such companies as British Airways, Chevrolet, Coca-Cola, General Motors, Guinness, Kellogg's, Levi's, Maxwell House, Pepsi, and Visa.

Menlo Capital Group

Menlo has leased its properties to corporations, including Hewlett Packard, Intel, Sony, Panasonic, FedEx, Visa, UPS, Warburg Pincus and Sofinnova Ventures.

Paralympic Hall of Fame

Every two years, the prize is awarded to personalities Paralympic who have made outstanding contributions to success on and fair play, from the third edition of the award is sponsored by VISA.


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