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  • First Data Cuts Work Force by 11%

    First Data Solutions, Omaha, NE, reduced its work force by 98 employees-approximately 11%-on May 15, a company spokesperson said. The cuts were made across

  • Account-Specific Spotlight: Hartford/New Haven, CT

    Hartford and New Haven supermarkets are big on service and specialty departments. Seventy percent of stores in the area have prepared-food departments,

  • Data Mines More Stores and Households

    Marketers in the U.S. spent an estimated $1.08 billion on promotion research in 1997, mostly on scanner data and analysis to track package goods promotions.Worldwide

  • Bride of Frankincense

    Forget that we just celebrated Independence Day. For some people, it’s never too early to start buying Christmas presents. With that in mind, Old World

  • Targeting Drives Growth

    Marketers’ purchase of nearly $12 billion in ad specialties last year represented record growth of 25 percent from 1996.While most of the growth in 1996

  • PromoNews

    WHITE PLAINS, NY – Nabisco Holdings Corp., seeking to turn around its flagging sales, will boost marketing and ad spending by 30 percent for its cookies

  • Listen to This-Free Long Distance

    A new service allows people to sign up for “free” long distance service if they agree to listen to advertising pitches over the phone. One company, Eagle’s

  • Blue’s Clues Land on Campbell Soup and in Subway

    Those blue paw prints of Nickelodeon’s newest hit character, Blue, are turning up with two additional partners this summer and fall.Blue, the animated

  • NEW LISTS

    Ziff-Davis-ZD Net ZD Net is a Web-based source for computing and Internet information. The file supplies the names of 600,000 subscribers to this service.Cost:

  • Delivery or Drive Through?

    Dan Bacin was a car nut before he was a restaurateur. So to celebrate the 20th anniversary of his Bacino’s Pizza chain in Chicago, Bacin bought four Volkswagen