Chief Marketer Staff

• Reclaiming Salem’s Lot

  Joe Camel may be on a respirator, but RJR’s Salem cigarettes, a brand that faded from view after the industry’s price rollback in 1994, is quietly going

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  I Can’t Even Be Bothered to Write a Headline

  I’M NOT IN the mood. I awoke this morning to the sound of former Partridge Family member Danny Bonaduce (now a DJ on New York’s Big-105) announcing over

• 100 years of Promotion

  If some 21st century Durkheim wanted insight on how Americans lived in this century, he could do worse than visit the Pillsbury archives, Bake-Off division.

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  Have You Hugged Your Printer Today?

  IN THIS AGE of camera-ready art, or direct-to-plate printing, it’s easy for a print house to accept a passive role in a card deck’s preparation. However,

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  CROSSFIRE

  THE LIST BUSINESS is facing many of the problems it encountered last year, with a couple of new twists-intensified merger activity, increased client demands

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  Awards, Pro and Con

  IN OUR OPINION awards programs should present the best work that’s been done, not provoke the question, “Is that the best an awards program can do?”Case

• True True North

  True North Communications, New York, has grouped its promotion agencies including Market Growth Resources, Wilton, CT, and McCracken Brooks Communications,

• Coming in next month’s PROMO

  Product Sampling Chart Make room on your wall for the sampling planner for 1999 programs. Learn about the major sampling programs for the upcoming year

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  Fox Hits the Fast Lane

  LOS ANGELES Fox will try to extend the tremendous brand loyalty of NASCAR down to its youngest audience when it creates a children’s show based on the

• European Gold Pro Award Winners Chosen

  Promotions from Belgium, England, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Spain, and the Netherlands won 15 gold and 15 silver PRO Awards this year out of a record-breaking