Chief Marketer Staff

• 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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  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

• Deal Makers

  Susan McMurray hired as vp, international sales, for MGM Consumer Products. She had been vp, licensing, at Strottman International.David Vogler returned

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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

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  Enhanced to Purchase eCommerce Corp.

  ENHANCED SERVICES CO. INC., El Segundo, CA, will buy eCommerce Corp. for a combination of cash and stock. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Stamford,

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  Don’t Quote Me-PLEASE

  IT’S ALWAYS NICE to be quoted in a prestigious newspaper like The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe or the

• Find a Strange Bedfellow

  Promotion is such an incestuous business. How often do you hear people say that? Usually they’re talking about how everybody’s “in bed” with everybody

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  A Customer in the Palm Is Worth…

  JON MCAULIFFE bought his PalmPilot handheld computer a year and a half ago. In March, McAuliffe, a quantitative analyst for New York investment bank D.E.

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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