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Agencies

  • Account-Specific Spotlight: Minneapolis-St. Paul

    Minneapolis is about as modest as a marketplace gets. Supermarkets here have the fewest health and beauty care, paper goods, beer, and books/magazines

  • Y&R to Buy KnowledgeBase

    ADBERTISING CONGLOMERATE Young & Rubicam Inc., New York, agreed in April to acquire database marketing agency KnowledgeBase Marketing Inc. for $175 million

  • National Semi Streams Ordering Processes Online

    NATIONAL Semiconductor Corp. is taking its microchip marketing program online with two new interactive ventures.The $2.5 billion Santa Clara, CA-based

  • Snyder Snares Media Company

    SNYDER COMMUNICATIONS INC., Bethesda, MD, has bought New York-based Media Syndication Global, an integrated marketing and media services company. The

  • Mileage Melange

    BY AUGMENTING BASIC vehicle purchase information with odometer data and wear patterns gleaned from service and maintenance visits, a Tampa, FL Ford dealer

  • DM Results Up: Survey

    TRADITIONAL DIRECT MARKETERS’ mailing results improved slightly in the fourth quarter of 1998, according to a just-released survey by Edith Roman Associates

  • Postal Progress

    IN THE YEARS following World War I, being gay was enough to disqualify people from being postal workers.Case in point: In 1924 or 1925, Henry Gerber,

  • Bill Would Protect Seniors

    SWEEPING LEGISLATION to protect senior citizens from being victimized by telemarketing and other fraud has been introduced in the Senate.If passed, the

  • Click and Save

    AN INTERNET SITE that produces coupons from users’ local retailers has begun tests in the Boston area.The site-Coolsavings.com-and Super Coups, Avon,

  • People

    Response Associates, San Francisco, hired Mark Freeman as operations manager.Kerker Marketing Communications, Minneapolis, named Scott Dahlgren media