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  • Pen Pals

    Discovery Communications’ Animal Planet inked a multi-platform partnership with Sanford Pens’ Paper Mate for a back-to-school campaign. Through October,

  • With Condiments

    H.J. Heinz Co. in June announced plans to revamp its portfolio and commit an additional $100 million to marketing this year in an effort to boost sales

  • Mathsoft’s E-mail Prospecting on a Roll

    Engineering software developer Mathsoft Engineering and Education Inc.’s shift from direct mail to e-mail prospecting is helping it build business from

  • Short Cuts

    AOL Time Warner and AOL UK have launched GiveNow.org, a new destination for online giving in the UK. Located at http://www.givenow.org., the new portal

  • Totally Tubular

    Food marketers are grooving on tubes. ConAgra Foods, Kraft Foods, Mott’s, Inc. and other CPGs are serving up snacks in a tube, from pudding and gelatin

  • Surviving the Downturn

    Laurel Touby blows into a room creating her own personal happening. A tiny, blonde bombshell with an intense gaze behind stylish spectacles, the founder

  • That’s My Name

    Who owns the name of a magazine subscriber the publisher or the agent who sold the sub? That question is being asked with increasing frequency because

  • DIRECT + Yankelovich present: 2002 consumer outlook

    INTRODUCTION BY RAY SCHULTZ Direct marketers are barraged every day with meaningless opinions about what consumers think. The press reports with great

  • Reader’s Digest Narrows Net Loss

    The Reader’s Digest Association Inc. reported a fourth-quarter net loss of $3 million, an $18 million improvement over last year’s results. But revenue