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  • Account-Specific Spotlight: Atlanta

    There’s been a second march on Atlanta, and the victors this time are Publix and Wal-Mart. The two chains have captured a combined 25 share in the last

  • The USPS Delivers

    CAN YOU TAKE IT?Direct mailers, already giddy from the timing and size of the rate hike, got another piece of good news from the U.S. Postal Service in

  • California Toughens Spam Laws

    TWO RECENT PIECES of legislation in California may crack down on unsolicited electronic mailings in that state.The first, AB 1676, has been signed into

  • Resetting the Shelf

    With Albertson’s and American Stores merged, can Kroger and Safeway be far behind? Apparently, they can be.Though rumors boomeranged about a merger between

  • Off the Shelf

    YEAH, THEY’RE mean all right. There’s Splat the road-kill kat, Lucky the one-footed rabbit, Fi-Do the dalmutation and Boris the mucousaurus (you can imagine

  • This Month in 1992

    IN PART THREE of our mini-look into DIRECT’s first decade of publication, we go back again to 1992, this time taking a gander at the October issue.* “Battlegrounds

  • Why 2K?

    Ask yourself: After it’s over, what are you going to have to remember it by besides the Y2K debacle?Corporate premium buyers are asking themselves that

  • CBS Casts Eye On Promotion

    Promotion agencies owned by CBS Radio, including New York-based WINS Promotion Group, are changing to a single name as the CBS division positions its

  • DEMOGRAPHICS

    TAKE A LOOK around. No matter what mainstream fashion magazines say, every woman is not built like wafer-thin model Kate Moss.This fact isn’t lost on

  • Under the Mistletoe: M&M/Mars Launches DR Promo

    WHO ATE Santa’s Miniatures?That question will appear on 13 million packages of Mars Miniatures this holiday season, courtesy of a partnership between