Chief Marketer Staff

• 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

• Clip and Rave

  Colgate’s Total toothpaste, Clorox’s Formula 409, and Dreyer’s Homemade Ice Cream were the first three brands to be inducted into the Free-Standing Insert

• An Uncertain Award

  Let’s face it, most sweepstakes prize structures are cut and dried: Super Bowl trip, sporty car, trip to Paris, wide screen TV, cash award. These are

• Agencies

  Mokrynski Compiles New Division

  Mokrynski & Associates Inc. has formed a list compilation division. Vice president Greg Wells, formerly of Hugo Dunhill Mailing Lists Inc. and American

• Nearing Top at Stop & Shop

  Stop & Shop, Quincy, MA, promoted Marc Smith to exec vp-chief operating officer to oversee store operations, sales and procurement, marketing and merchandising,

• Dorm Room Confidential

  Levi Strauss Co., San Francisco, is looking for a trio of savvy campus shoppers who can survive for a semester solely on online purchases. In preparation

• AURORA FOODS

  Mrs. Butterworth was hurting when Ed Yuhas met her. Aurora Foods hired him in 1997 to revive Mrs. B and its other “new” syrup brand, Log Cabin, bought

• MERVYN’S CALIFORNIA

  Joe Montana was one of the 1/2rst icons Mervyn’s California signed three years ago when it embarked on a program to hype its neighborhood, middle-market

• Agencies

  What You Use Might Hurt You

  Direct marketers are so busy gathering information on consumers that they often don’t take the time to consider the wisdom of using personal data. A new

• Agencies

  Time to Stop the Dance

  Those familiar with the paths a legislative proposal takes on its way to congressional enactment often refer to the process as the dance of legislation.