Our History

We’ve come a long way baby!

1988

Festival Promotions is launched

2000

Lee Boyd joins the team

2006

Scott McLaren joins the team

2007

Scott McLaren leaves the team

2009

Scott misses Festival too much and comes back and buys the company with Lee

2011

The first MoScarf is produced and featured on TSN

2012

The MoScarf becomes the official scarf of Movember Canada

2013

Patrick Hall joins the team

2013

Riley Cavanagh joins the team

2014

Festival dresses Team Nunavut for the first time

2014

Riley Cavanagh joins the sales team

2015

Festival selected as the official supplier of non-licensed promo items for the FIFA U20 Women’s World Cup 2014 and FIFA Women’s World Cup 2015

2017

Adam Ferris joins the team

2017

Festival produces a number of cool things for Ottawa 2017

2018

Monopoly Ottawa begins

2018

Festival partner, Scott named Ottawa’s Top 40underForty

2019

Ning Luo joins the team