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Agencies

  • We Knew Them When

    A new study by Opinion Research Corp. International, Princeton, NJ, on behalf of Priceline.com, finds that seven Internet “mega-brands” have reached household-name

  • Learn From the Past

    Order information-as well as promotion history and demographic data-can help marketers create segments and regulate customer contacts.When using a customer’s

  • Late Mailings Lead to Lawsuit

    California company filed a lawsuit against Advo Inc., Windsor, CT, claiming that lost revenue due to alleged mailings by Advo’s lettershop sent the company

  • Account-Specific Spotlight: Phoenix

    Phoenix grocers are big on free samples, but light on frequent-shopper deals. Only 11 percent of stores here have frequent-shopper programs. Fully 94

  • Malling Betty

    General Mills begins construction this month Betty Crocker Kitchen, a retail bakery outlet in the Mall of America. The store will open in mid-October,

  • Block That Call

    CHICAGO-BASED AMERITECH unveiled a service in Chicago and Detroit last month specifically designed to block telemarketers’ calls. The company is the first

  • Insight Promotes Its Web Site on TV

    Insight Enterprises Inc. has just finished testing a series of national and regional television spots directing prospective purchasers to its Web site

  • Brazil and Argentina Mull Privacy Bills

    THE GOVERNMENTS OF both Brazil and Argentina are considering privacy legislation that could lead them further away from the U.S. privacy model, and closer

  • Same As It Ever Was

    WE’RE 10! We’re 10! Oh happy day! Yeah! Does that mean we get to ride our bikes after dark now?OK, so DIRECT is celebrating its first decade of publication.