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  • LISTLINE

    Mumford Leaves Karl atherine Mumford, senior vice president list management, resigned her position at Walter Karl/InfoUSA, Greenwich, CT, last month.

  • Enemies List

    As reported by Thom Weidlich on page 11, protesters tried to disrupt the DMA executive committee meeting in San Francisco last month. They dumped some

  • 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,

  • Cut and Paste

    WHEN MY SISTER and I were little, our mother used to save all the holiday catalogs she received. On Christmas, she would take them out and give them to

  • No Lazy Last Days of Summer for Retail Catalogers

    WHILE AUGUST sales among a sample of retailers were lackluster, those with separate catalog divisions showed stronger results during the last full month

  • Beastie-Vision

    AT 3 A.M, one expects to find Ron Popeil on the air extolling the virtues of hair in a can. Or an ’80s sitcom star praising a line of cosmetics. But the

  • TV Now a Toll-Free Medium

    ALMOST ONE-FOURTH of all television commercials use a toll-free number as a response mechanism, according to a new study by Response Marketing Group,

  • Consider Tomorrow at Today’s Conference

    MANY OF YOU will read this issue either before or while attending the Direct Marketing Association’s annual conference in San Francisco. To set the mood,