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  • So You Want to Be the Head Honcho?

    BC has bought DFG, LMN has merged with XYZ, and so on. And most of these new entities need CEOs. Some bring in a new person, others promote from within.

  • People

    CPS Direct Inc., Woburn, MA, named Nick Vadala chief executive officer.Lynn Edmonds was appointed executive vice president and general manager of Vantage

  • Winter Chill

    The upcoming postal rate hike, touted as the smallest in U.S. Postal Service history, came as a relief to some commercial mailers but leveled a crushing

  • Wrapped up in Trivia

    M&M/Mars’s Snickers brand has unwrapped its You Don’t Know Jack promo, providing fun sports trivia questions inside the wrappers of 100 million Snickers

  • Study Shows Direct-to-Consumer Ad Growth

    Direct-to-consumer (DTC) promotional spending by pharmaceutical companies, mostly in the form of direct response ads, grew by 16% to $631 million in the

  • Music Clubs

    BMG Direct and Columbia House are building profit centers in expanding markets for Christian, gospel and Latin music. BMG acquired its “Sound and Spirit”

  • Nintendo Beats Sony for Star Wars Games

    NEW YORK The new force will be with Nintendo. The video game manufacturer bested Sony for the most coveted movie title next year, Star War’s Episode I:

  • B-to-B DM Stocks Eke Out Slight Increase

    Without the impressive stock price gains by computer hardware and peripherals vendors, business-to-business direct marketing companies would not have