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  Reader’s Digest Plans Global Change THE READER’S DIGEST Association, Pleasantville, NY, is planning a global reorganization aimed at revitalizing the

• GOING FASTER THAN EVER: Ironman picks up steam and sponsors for its 20th year.

  The first Ironman Triathlon was dreamed up during a Navy awards ceremony as a way to settle a bet about whether bikers or runners were in better shape.

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  Anniversary Songs

  TWO VENERABLE LIST companies are celebrating their 20th anniversaries this month-proof that there is such a thing as stability in direct marketing.One

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  Telecom Tune-up

  BELL ATLANTIC is rolling out a business-to-business retention program in New England that had its origins in New York in 1995. The telecommunications

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  Office Depot Goes to School

  Office Depot is using direct mail, coupons and sweepstakes to target the 6.5 million national parent-teacher association (PTA) members who buy school

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  B-to-B Sales Slowly Rising

  LIKE THE TORTOISE that won the race, business-to-business sales are moving ahead slowly but surely, according to results of a survey presented at this

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  Dan Granger, president and coo of Catalina Marketing Corp., St. Petersburg, FL, was named president and ceo. George Off, former ceo has been named chairman.

• Calling All Rare Talents

  To all of you multi-disciplined creatives who still can’t decide what you want to be when you grow up or can’t describe your occupation in that little

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  I Went to College for This???

  UNTIL YESTERDAY AFTERNOON, I had planned to write a nice docile column about branding successes.Maybe I’ll be docile next issue.A few months ago, I received

• Is There a Promotion Exec in the House?

  Promo’s 1998 Annual Report of the Promotion Industry shows impressive growth – up seven billion dollars, or 10 percent, from last year. This windfall