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  • Direct Newsline

    Trans Union Loses Nod to FTC IN THE LATEST round of a long-running battle, a Federal Trade Commission judge has ordered Trans Union Corp., Chicago, to

  • Budget’s Big Blast

    Perhaps the name Budget reacts with the well-burnished executive ego like some image-tarnishing oxidizing agent. No matter. Marketers at Budget Rent a

  • GET BACK TO THE BASICS

    “BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU wish for.” For business-to-business marketers, this old adage has never been more true.B-to-Bers have abundant sales and marketing

  • DB Suits Clothiers

    CONNECTICUT-BASED upscale men’s clothing retailer Richard’s of Greenwich has seen sales increase 20% annually since 1995, when it adopted the database

  • Branding the Herd

    DURING TWO OF my summer sojourns, I realized that many of our industry’s finest had done an exemplary job of branding, at least in our household.While

  • No Gain, Some Pain

    Food and drug retailer American Stores Co. posted lower second-quarter profits versus last year as aggressive promotional spending against to supermarket

  • Oh, Baby

    Mack Jenks spent a little time with his calculator before settling on the prize package for Gerber Rewards. The baby food leader wanted to “give away

  • Answers First, Questions Later

    Nobody who’s read this magazine for any length of time could fault it for not advancing the cause of promotions. After all, promo is our name and what

  • Exploring the Far East

    MAYBE IT HAS GOT EXTRAORDINARY faith in light of the Asian economic meltdown. Maybe it knows something we don’t. In either case, Dell Computer Corp. wants

  • NEW LISTS

    Direct Sales Inc. The 90,000 individuals listed responded by phone to a Direct Sales mail piece offering a chance to win various prizes. Everyone on the