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BabyGap Rolls Out Casting Call
BabyGap is putting the call out to moms and dads who think they have the cutest babies as part of a new contest to feature tots in an upcoming ad for the brand.
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Pepsi and DUB Magazine Throw Online Auto Show
Pepsi has partnered with automotive lifestyle brand DUB and its annual custom auto show in an online contest that lets consumers post their own tricked-out autos to a microsite for a chance to win prizes.
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7-Eleven New Start Time for White Sox Games
7-Eleven is ramping up its image in the Chicago area by letting Chicagoans know that apart from being a convenience store, 7:11 is now the new start time for home games of the Chicago White Sox. 7-Eleven inked the sponsorship deal with the Major League Baseball team last week that will run through 2009.
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Wendy’s Sharpens Focus with $31 Million Baja Fresh Sale
Wendy’s International, Inc. said it is focusing its efforts on its main Wendy’s franchise with the sale of the Baja Fresh Mexican Grill restaurant chain.
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Home Depot Shuffles Execs, Names Adams CMO
The Home Depot promoted Roger Adams to CMO last week in a management shuffle that separates marketing from merchandising in order to improve both at the store level.
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Loose Cannon: A Few Pearl(stein)s of Wisdom Close to DMA Annual
During a recent cleaning frenzy, I came across two columns from Washington Post business reporter Steven Pearlstein. I
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Do You Know About SIFE?
Once again it’s time to play “Figure out the ad.” You do have time for that in your busy day, don’t you?
Whenever I see an ad headline like this one for an organization called SIFE (Students in Free Enterprise), I think of Robert Di Niro in the movie “Taxi Driver.” Are you talkin’ to me?
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Match ‘Em Up
KATHY’S DESIGNING HER NEW restaurant’s kitchen and is looking to buy several new high-end stoves, refrigerators and the like. As the salesman prepares
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Channel Challenges
A number of years ago I was in a kickoff meeting for a large project focusing on multichannel order management. The goal was to integrate data from different
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Memo to APWU: Get Real
What’s up with the American Postal Workers Union? Here’s an organization that’s supposed to secure the long-term best interests of a key sector of the