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  • Xtra

    9/9 The Women’s National Basketball Association has opened the second half of 2004 with new marketing relationships with Nike, Foot Locker, Dell and The

  • Coming Attractions

    Film-goers spent more time on the beach than at theaters this summer. Box office revenue for the summer was up 3% from last year to $3.7 billion, while

  • InfoUSA’s Sales Genie Reappears

    InfoUSA has relaunched its Sales Genie system as an online subscription-based sales lead tool.

  • Bewitching Beer

    A consumer walks by. The lid creaks open. A ghoulish-looking blue hand rises up holding a can of Coors Light. The motion-sensor activated display which

  • The Power is in the Story

    If the strength of a brand rests on its ability to tell a good story, it shouldn’t be that great a leap for that storyline to intersect with others right?

  • Segmenting Seniors…Or Not?

    THE 50+ CROWD IS GROWING FAST. By 2010 the U.S. Census Bureau says there will be 97.1 million senior citizens across the country, compared to 77.8 million

  • Laughing all the Way

    Hampton Inn Hotels in using comedy and a virtual promotion to cue business travelers to its multi-million upgrade and drive customers to the Web. The

  • DIRECT Listline

    NEW LISTS Seventh Avenue Enhanced Swiss Colony Inc. has developed a 1.8 million-record master file and several buyer lists with data from the catalog titles it publishes. The master file combines data from the Seventh Avenue, Midnight Velvet, Ginny’s, …

  • News briefs/directmag.com

    9/9 D&B agreed to sell its business in France to Base d’Information Legales Holding S.A.S. (Bil Holding) for $32 million. D&B generated roughly $38 million from the business last year. The unit has 170 employees, most of whom will remain. As part of the …

  • LOOSE CANNON: Threat Level: Leafy Green

    The Department of Homeland Security recently decided to bring its computer-assisted airline passenger screening operations in-house.