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  • 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,

  • 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

  • Pilot Light

    For many utilities, it doesn’t matter whether they consider themselves the dog, the hat or the race car: The monopoly game will soon be over.As they accept

  • Britannia Cools Its Heels?

    Brits always claim to produce the best advertising in the world. Something about our quirky sense of humor and literate consumer base leads to the often-repeated

  • Kemmler’s Law

    Moments before becoming the first man ever to go to the electric chair, William Kemmler complained about his press coverage. “I’m bad enough,” he said.

  • 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

  • The Passages of Life

    If you’re a manufacturer of pet care products, what’s the best way to grab additional customers? Would you rather entice someone to switch to your products,

  • Acxiom Corp. Beefs Up

    CONWAY, AK – Acxiom Corp has agreed to acquire May & Speh Inc., a direct market competitor, for stock valued at $17.44 a share or about $625 million,

  • R-E-S-P-E-C-T-What Does That Mean to Us?

    Demarcation lines have faded. Direct marketers are respectable at last. Almost as respectable as general advertising executives. Certainly as respectable

  • The Branded Generation

    Seven billion dollars. Seven billion dollars. That’s how much the promotion industry added to its total last year, according to the the 1998 Annual Report