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  • Retailer Realities

    Got a question for retail buyers that you’re too shy to ask? Promo Edge’s Retail Research Center polls buyers nationwide with your questions, and we print

  • Consumer DM Stocks Make a Comeback

    CONSUMER DM stocks registered significant gains throughout the winter. Improvements in previous quarters were led primarily by electronic marketers, but

  • DM AD Penetration in U.K. at All-Time High

    DIRECT MARKETING’S penetration into the U.K. ad marketplace is at an all-time high, Colin Lloyd, chief executive of the U.K. Direct Marketing Association,

  • People

    Marianne Frasco named vp-business development at Trade Dimensions, Wilton, CT.As part of a restructuring, Adamson, St. Louis, named Richard Rubenstein

  • Lone Star Specials

    Miller Brewing Co. exploded a year-long firecracker last month when it kicked off an estimated $20 million True to Texas campaign for Miller Lite. The

  • Teaching Old Names New Tricks

    FOR CATALOGERS, RFM (recency, frequency and monetary) analysis is still a powerful list prospecting and continuation mailing tool. But catalogers are

  • Short Cuts

    IDG Communications List Services, Framingham, MA, is the new list manager of The Industry Standard subscriber list. The base cost for the list is $185/M.Direct

  • Triple Bill

    Continuing its retailer/distributor-focused marketing push, PolyGram Video last month launched an incentive program for its spring releases that ties

  • In Web We Trust

    MOST COMPANIES recognize the Internet is here to stay, and that they’ve got to figure out this new thing called e-commerce. While many firms get it, the

  • Retailers

    THE CONVERGENCE of new information technologies and marketing is beginning to blur distinctions between traditional retailers and DMers.Aside from the