Chief Marketer Staff

• Snack Attack

  Sharon Fordham has been reacquainting herself with the cookie aisle.Back at the marketing helm of Nabisco Biscuit Co. after her 1994 to ’97 run as president

• Promo News

  Going PRO: OptionOne tops U.S. winners in ’98 World PRO Awards of Excellence.CHICAGO – Minneapolis agency OptionOne snagged the award for Best Promotion

• I Scream, You Scream: A childhood memory helps boost ice scream sales in Ireland.

  It’s not often you get your best idea for a campaign before you’ve even pitched the account, but that’s what happened when HB Ice Cream asked Creative

• Sitings

  CLEANING UP THE STY www.pigglywiggly.comI don’t much care for the grocer’s online “smiling character,” Mr. Pig whose snout is plastered all over the site.

• Who’s News

  Cross-Sell Advantage Earl Palmer Brown Cos. continued its shopping spree last month when it bought BEN Marketing, the 9-year-old Stamford, CT, promo agency

• Box Top Bingo

  Two straight years of wilting sales have presented U.S. cereal makers with a grim picture. Two of the industry’s heaviest hitters, Kellogg’s and General

• Agencies

  The New Select

  ARE YOU WONDERING why that top-performing list you rented in 1997 just didn’t cut the mustard this year?One answer: Take a closer peek at where those

• Agencies

  That’s Entertainment

  High-Speed Duel In an innovative idea, DC Comics and NASCAR will join next month to stage a duel within one of the circuit’s biggest races. The Showdown

• Agencies

  Customer-Targeted Marketing Communications

  THIS IS PART three of an excerpt from a chapter on relationship marketing, from the upcoming third edition of David Shepard Associates’ “The New Direct

• DEAL MAKERS

  Fox Family Worldwide, Los Angeles, created a consumer products division to be run by Elie Dekel, exec. vp of the new unit. The division will include licensing