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  • Remembering Pete Hoke

    NOT THAT HE needed any tributes from us, but direct marketers lost one of the best friends they ever had with the death of Pete Hoke in July.Pete cared

  • DOWNSIZING

    Acxiom/DMI Lays Off 30 ACXIOM/DIRECT MEDIA, Greenwich, CT, laid off 30 employees-some 5% of its work force-last month. The terminations came as part of

  • Amex Accused of Bias Against Hasidic Jews

    A NEW YORK jeweler has sued American Express Travel Related Services, claiming Amex is excluding from its catalogs items from vendors owned by Hasidic

  • Animorphs Changing into a MultiMedia Success

    NEW YORK Quick, think of a successful children’s book series that was turned into a hit TV show? If you answered Goosebumps, you’re right, but execs at

  • Bean Sprouts Redesign

    IN RESPONSE TO “sluggish sales and stiffer competition,” apparel cataloger and retailer L.L. Bean is refining its catalog marketing operations and is

  • Get Framed

    TALK ABOUT a Web site with frames!Artuframe (www.artuframe.com), as in “art you frame,” allows you to do just that: pick out a piece of art, frame it,

  • 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

  • Wake up and Smell the Co-Marketing

    Account-specific marketing is stopping traffic in Greenwich Village.It started with Fender Guitars’ Christmas radio campaign, the first consumer spots

  • Quarterdeck President Hessler Resigns

    CURT HESSLER HAS resigned as president, CEO and director of Quarterdeck Corp., a computer helpware direct marketer/retailer in Marina del Rey, CA. The

  • People

    Mokrynski & Associates Inc., Hackensack, NJ, promoted Lori Sloves to account executive in the list brokerage division.DraftWorldwide, Chicago, named Kristi