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Agencies

  • People

    Foster & Gallagher Inc., Peoria, IL, promoted Barb McConnell to director of advertising/desktop publishing. F&G’s Michigan Bulb Group, Grand Rapids, MI,

  • Bear Swallows Consumer DM Stocks

    ONE DAY DOES not a year make, but on Wall Street, a day can unmake a year.The Aug. 31 stock market meltdown battered the prices of consumer direct marketing

  • Winning New Subscribers

    ADVERTISING Concepts Inc. hopes $125 in customized coupons will entice its online newsletter subscribers to share their friends’ e-mail addresses.The

  • The Peanut Gallery Lives! A Digestive Directive

    THINK YOU’VE SEEN all there is to see about government intervention into commerce…greasy sand, sticking in the gears of progress? Well, you ain’t seen

  • Web Wonders

    CAN IT REALLY be true that the first primitive offers on the World Wide Web originated only four years ago? We’ve come a long way, baby, and by millennium

  • A DM Theme Park

    There are industrial parks for everything else. Why not direct marketing?That’s part of the logic behind DM41, a business park scheduled to open this

  • Moving OUT

    COMPUTERS ARE no longer the off-putting beasts they once were, and so marketing them has gone mainstream. DMers find they can stray from high-technology

  • The Check Is the Mail

    THROUGH A solicitation effort printed onto a double postcard refund check statement, Publishers Clearing House not only realized a cost savings, but opened

  • Wizard Charges Into Affinity Cards

    THE AFFINITY CREDIT CARD is to Wizard Entertainment what the utility belt is to Batman.The Congers, NY-based publisher of magazines for fans of comics,

  • Merge Splurge

    ACXIOM CORP. now owns Direct Media and May & Speh. The U.K.’s Great Universal Stores owns Experian, which owns Metromail. Harte-Hanks, which ditched its