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  • Sitings

    Who knew a coffee-liqueur could be this fun? What’s cool is that the cocktail concoctions are the least exciting things here. Get tipsy in the Pleasuredome,

  • In Search of Healthy Shoppers

    An apple a day will not only keep the doctor away, it might also reduce traffic to drug stores. According to ongoing retail surveys conducted by Meyers

  • Back Seat Driver

    Joni Rainbolt doesn’t just market Oldsmobile’s Silhouette Premiere. She helped design it.Rainbolt was an engineer on the team that dreamed up the family

  • Gender Vendors

    The French say “vive la difference” when it comes to the sexes. Direct marketers, however, are more divided on the topic of gender.Men’s Health, for example,

  • Men Shop, But Women Buy Insurance Online

    Men typically shop for insurance online but it’s women who end up buying, according to a recent analysis of American consumers who have accessed the RightQuote

  • Milk Shakes

    FUNNY HOW MILK LOOKS like a brand when it’s on the upper lips of celebrities, but still sells like a commodity in the grocery store.This is the year all

  • PACKARD BELL

    Hungry for a marketing challenge?Imagine you’re Packard Bell, the Thousand Oaks, CA, seller of PCs and home electronics. For a decade you have revolutionized

  • Account-Specific Spotlight: Salt Lake City

    Looking for solutions selling ideas? Check out Salt Lake City. The hometown of American Stores is the No. 1 city for aisle markets, in 97 percent of supermarkets.

  • M&M/MARS

    As of this writing, no consumer had produced the Jerome Bettis MVP Snickers wrapper worth $2 million as the winning ticket in last summer’s Shock Zone

  • 1998 PROMO All Stars

    With each online purchase, the CDNow customer received an electronic “Scratch & Win” game card that showed instantly if the participant had won anything.