Chief Marketer Staff

• HEALTH & BEAUTY CARE

  Share a Secret/USA Building a solid base of loyal customers is tough enough. But turning loyal users into active proselytizers for the brand? C’mon. That’s

• Agencies

  Credit Where Credit Is Due

  My New Year’s resolution for 1999 is a simple one: to simplify my life.Toward that end, I decided to cancel the stack of long unused credit cards I had

• Excellencex 16

  They dared to do it. That’s how the agencies and clients you will read about on the following pages took home 1998 World PRO of Excellence Awards. They

• RESTAURANTS

  Burger King Free Fryday/ USA Just how much cooking oil goes into making 18 million orders of french fries? Makes one wonder whether Burger King purchased

• Who’s News

  MDC’s Southward Invasion MDC Corp., the Toronto-based company that first crossed the border in May when it bought Internet marketer CyberSight, has snapped

• Agencies

  Schweppes and Lerner team with Broadway

  NEW YORK Schweppes will activate its Live Broadway sponsorship with a national holiday instant-win sweepstakes. The promo will be on specially marked

• Disney

  BURBANK While everyone has waited for another Disney hit the size of Lion King, General Mills’s tie-in with the movie’s sequel proved to be a solid hit.

• The More Things Change…

  Ever wonder why food marketers invariably refer to “the shopper” by employing the personal pronoun, “she?” Are they sexists? No, just realists. For though

• Contact!

  Teva Marion Partners, Kansas City, MO, has teamed with Sprint FonPromotions, also based here, to help multiple sclerosis patients stay in touch. In the

• It Could’ve Gotten Ugly

  British Airways, “The World’s Favourite Airline,” was about to offer a new service: the only daily nonstop flights between Denver and London. The client