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Agencies

  • Corporate Gift Program Uncorked

    Virtual Vineyards (www. virtualvin. com), the consumer Web site that sells wine, food and gifts, has gone into the corporate gift and incentives business.With

  • P-O-P Gains, But Girds for Tobacco Withdrawal

    Marketers last year spent $13.1 billion on point-of-purchase displays, an increase of 5 percent above 1996.Some segments had growth rates that exceeded

  • Impulse: The Sequel

    Last month we wrote about 1-800-Flowers, Godiva Chocolatier and Eddie Bauer using technology from Narrative Communications Corp. to bring impulse buying

  • Oops! Catalog Faux Pas

    Nothing in the body, nothing on the body.”That’s the rule Levenger president Steve Leveen said his chief merchandiser adopted after a series of apparel

  • People

    DCI Marketing, Milwaukee, promoted David Steeno to senior account service coordinator for its Detroit office, and hired Mike Haizel as physical distribution

  • Hello, You Failed. Would You Like to Buy a Blender?

    This spring, hundreds of thousands of students found out their grades for the semester over the phone. Before they heard the good (or bad) news they listened

  • Rapp Collins Tops in Billings

    Rapp Collins Worldwide, with $1.615 billion in billings in 1997, leads the list of top 10 agencies, according to the Direct Marketing Association’s annual

  • May & Speh Acquires Sigma Marketing Group

    May & Speh Inc., Downers Grove, IL, has acquired the assets of Sigma Marketing Group Inc., a full-service database marketing company headquartered in

  • Everywhere Merchants Want to Be

    Visa USA will give its retail partners magic for Christmas this year, part of an aggressive slate of consumer promotions designed to drive purchases in

  • You Beta, You Beta, You Bet

    A FEW TRENDS have come to light in our semiannual roundup of new database products. Most strikingly, the advent of increasingly powerful desktop computers