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Agencies

  • Now This Is Hot Mail

    WE GET LOTS of press releases every day. Some come in plain white envelopes, while others try to catch our eye with fancy paper and fire-engine-red folders.Nykamp

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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,

  • People

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