Who We Are
Your one resource for marketing and branded merchandise
CE Marketing Group and CE Shoppes Powered by Proforma are subsidiaries of Creative Expressions of Tampa Bay, Inc. Our mission is to deliver on the promises we make. Our role is to be your One Source with Infinite Resources. Our business began in 1995 with a passion to create products, offer solutions and execute events. The business plan incorporated the love of developing and managing relationships to provide customer solutions. As our business continued to evolve, we added more products and other websites to fulfill the varying needs of our customers, to offer “Extraordinary Gifts for Extraordinary People.” To us, marketing is the entire step of the relationship from making a promise, providing a vision, and executing it to help transform organizations.
When you work with CE Marketing /CE Shoppes you get the benefit of Proforma’s $500 million dollars’ worth of purchasing power, its decades of industry experience, and hundreds of carefully vetted vendor partners to provide services and products to our clients, to help you grow your sales and reduce costs associated with branding, promotions, marketing and print.
Time Line
1995 Creative Expressions of Tampa Bay, Inc worked hand-in-hand with customers all over the U.S and Canada to make their business dreams a reality.
2008 CE Shoppes became a subsidiary of Creative Expressions of Tampa Bay, Inc. allowing our customers to search for thousands of products in different web shoppes, each specializing in decorated items like food gifts, recognition and sales awards, promotional items, branded gifts and more, enabling them to quickly find the items they desired for their events.
2010-2011 WBENC Certified
2014 CE Shoppes joined Proforma, one of the leading Print and Promotional Agencies in the U.S, as a franchise partner. With so many services and offerings, including creativity and innovation, from the development of brochures and branding of promotional items, to the execution of marketing campaigns and ecommerce solutions, we decided to make one web shoppe to house all 18K Sku’s that would also serve as a shopping cart for every item across all of our shoppes. Introduced CorporateGiftStores.com to fulfill this need.
2015 Corporate Gift stores brought the power of a large database, used across all web shoppes and a single shopping cart together.
2020 – CE Marketing Group combines a wide range of marketing products and services including branded apparel/uniforms, website development and internal company stores to assure brand control and integrity among all departments and locations, as well as robust reporting.