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  • Albertsons Aims To Turn the Dining Room LIghts Back On

    Jim Smits has been touring restaurant kitchens and developing recipes, but he has no aspirations to be a chef. Smits is a 20-year veteran of the grocery

  • TIMELINE

    June 16, 2006 HORMEL FOODS CORP., the maker of Spam, agreed to a lawsuit settlement that would allow NetBop Technologies, a small Welsh technology firm,

  • DMers Losing Interest in AOL Addresses

    If AOL wants legitimate marketers to avoid contacting its subscribers, the plan is starting to work. E-mailers are preparing for a serious drop in performance

  • Signature Event

    According to Tuff Stuff sports memorabilia magazine, the most-popular sports collectible is the trading card. The second-most popular type of collectible

  • Educate Yourself

    THE POSTAL INDUSTRY IS UNDER attack, and it’s time people in our business took it seriously. Too many who make their living from the mail are turning

  • Aste+risk Means You’re Risking Your Aste

    I ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY, AND UNEQUIVOCALLY BELIEVE IN information optimizing. Information optimizing is making the most of any benefits whatever you’re

  • Revised Curriculum

    The folks at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management must be auditing direct marketing classes at their parent school. For starters, they’ve

  • Great-West Woos Dentists

    TALK ABOUT DRILLING DOWN: Great-West Life Assurance Co. increased its coverage of dentists by 7% by offering enhanced benefits and changing its list segmentation.

  • Full Disclosure

    The U.S. Postal Service has a problem: It needs to improve customer relations. But that’s a tall order given the uncertainty of postal reform legislation passage, the new rate case and the promise of large annual increases because of the escrow account issue.

  • Best Practices at Best Buy

    Best Buy, frustrated with the speed at which its loyalty program was growing, decided on an overhaul 18 months ago. It was a good move. Since then, enrollment