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  • Listline e-Newsletter 09/13/06

    CMP Business Media tapped MeritDirect to manage TechNet magazine’s file.
    A total of 68,036 subscribers’ names and 4,879 e-mail addresses are
    listed.

  • Kraft Names First CMO; Sneed Resigns

    Kraft Foods revamped its marketing staff yesterday, naming Jeri Finard as its first-ever CMO and merging its global marketing unit with global category development.

  • Students to Create Super Bowl Ad for Chevy

    College students across the country could have their idea for a Chevy ad watched by more than 140 million viewers during next year’s Super Bowl thanks to a new Chevrolet promotion.

  • Denny’s Drives Sales with 49 Million Scratch-Off Cards

    Denny’s is revving up excitement around a new scratch-off promotion with Coca-Cola that dangles a chance for customers and racing fans alike to ride along with some of their favorite NASCAR Nextel Cup Series drivers.

  • Circuit City Names Weedfald CMO

    Circuit City Stores has promoted Samsung veteran Peter Weedfald to senior VP-CMO of the consumer electronics retailer.

  • News Brief

    AMSOUTH BANK: is offering its customers the chance to have their

  • Test for Imran

    ABC is bringing dancing stars to the streets of New York as part of a guerilla marketing stunt to hype up the latest season of its popular show Dancing With the Stars.

  • Michigan Casts Wide Do-Not-E-Mail Net

    If the first charges brought under Michigan

  • Stupid Country Watch: New Zealand to Allow Nonprofit Spam

    Proving that Utah and Michigan don’t have a monopoly on wacky lawmakers, New Zealand’s commerce select committee has recommended changing the country’s anti-spam bill so its citizens can send unsolicited e-mail and need not stop even if asked by the recipient to do so, as long as the messages are non-commercial, according to a story on Stuff.co.nz.

  • Poland Raises Ante Against Spam

    Poland has added an anti-spam provision in a draft amendment to its telecommunications law, according to TMCnet.

    The new regulation would make spamming—which the report did not define—a crime punishable by a fine of up to $32,000.