Chief Marketer Staff

• Agencies

  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

• 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,

• Agencies

  Net Tax Relief Bill Gains in House

  LEGISLATION DESIGNED TO stop state and local governments from imposing new taxes on Internet transactions for at least three years and creating a special

• 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,

• Mining Space

  NEW YORK – Doubleday and Abrams, two heavyweight publishers, have teamed with SoundZone, an Internet-affiliated banner network, to promote John Grisham’s

• 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

• Agencies

  Chicago Internet Guru Jay Gondelman Dies

  Jay Gondelman, the Chicago Association of Direct Marketing’s interactive guru and partner in Visionautics Inc., died in June of cancer at 50. According

• Creativity, Wit, Results – A Recipe for Success

  What makes a winning promotion? What goes into a campaign that builds sales and market share beyond all reasonable expectations, contributes to brand

• Agencies

  Hochberg Made SBA Deputy Administrator

  Cataloger Fred P. Hochberg, former president/CEO of Lillian Vernon Corp., was sworn in last month as deputy administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration.