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  • DATA DAM

    THE SPATE OF recently introduced privacy legislation may have a flag-waving, feel-good aura about it, but be alert. The direct marketing industry, experts

  • THE NEW CREW

    To a casual visitor, the J. Crew office in the former Wanamaker building in New York probably doesn’t look any different than it did two summers ago.

  • Due North

    D L. RYAN COS., Westport, CT, has established a beachhead in Canada. Its new office, headed by Amey Harding in Toronto, will likely become full service

  • Beyond the Bag

    AFTER HANDING OUT 100,000 co-op giveaway bags to departing Super Bowl fans in January, Bob Perlstein, president of LCC Inc. in Atlanta, was so enthusiastic

  • The Brand Plays On

    ONCE UPON A time, retail catalogs were about getting customers into the store to buy product. Each and every customer received a catalog for each and

  • An Owner’s Manual

    I OWNED ONE list management house or another for almost 25 years, and I have a special message for list owners: It’s arguable you haven’t the faintest

  • Divine Mission: A 1907 Direct Mail Letter

    THOUGH IT’S true that most early direct mail was junk, one does stumble from time to time upon a gem-a letter that casts light not only on the mailer’s

  • Farmers

    ORGANIC FARMERS are the most conspicuous holdovers of America’s steady transition from family farming to corporate agribusiness. But expansion in the

  • Strasbourg Snapshots

    FEDMA Elects New Chair Ivan Hodac was elected the new chairman of the Federation of European Direct Marketing last month. Hodac, who will serve for two