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  • Leaders of the Pack

    DIVERSE AS THEY ARE, our gang of 1998 Market Leaders all share one common trait: They’re ready for commitment. Virgin Atlantic is putting its own stamp

  • DRTV-A Religious Experience?

    THE MALIGNED CAN always use a positive spokesperson, and DRTV is no exception. Maybe the much-poked-at art form will find it this month in Eddie Murphy.The

  • Pig in the City

    Last month, Discover Card, Riverwoods, IL, launched its national Babe: Pig in the City promo partnership with Universal Pictures, Hollywood. The promo

  • Sitings

    DOGGIE-STYLE www.ballparkfranks.com They plump when you cook ’em, but come on pookie, on the two-dimensional Web, that’s not enough. The kind of sites

  • 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

  • Taking Tea with Barbie

    At 10 a.m. on Oct. 10, every Wal-Mart store in America, all 2,500 of them, will put up a poster on the front door inviting girls of all ages to attend

  • 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

  • New Products

    That’s a Wrap CapBanners can transform a cap simply by applying a banner across the front of an existing cap. The banners from Sales Ahead!, Irvine, CA,

  • 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

  • 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