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Parker Brothers is touting its new game video disc, Shout About Movies, through a mobile tour, instant-win game and an online sweepstakes, with the grand prize of an all-expense paid trip to Hollywood. The Shout About Movies tour will hit 11 markets, …

With only one week to go before Santa comes to town, Sears, Roebuck and Co. has added a new promotion to get shoppers into its stores. On Saturday, the first 100 customers at each of its full-line stores across the country will get a $10 gift card. The …

Back by popular demand, the Hallmark Channel is reviving its annual holiday sweepstakes packed with more than 1,000 prizes, including a walk-on role in a Hallmark Channel movie. The Hallmark Channel Hollywood Holiday Sweepstakes offers Hallmark store …

Sporty’s Offers Men’s Collection The Sporty’s family of practical and gadget-y home catalogs recently spun off a new edition called Sporty’s Men’s Collection. Compared to the main title, Sporty’s Preferred Living Collection, the newer, male-named …

It’s out of this world. To better educate software developers about leading edge development technology, Oracle has launched a new online sweepstakes touting its top prize as a trip to space. The Oracle Space Sweepstakes is giving one grand-prize winner …

Israel-Do-Not-DM bills introduced

Last month, both Kraft Foods Global, Inc. and Masterfoods, Inc., agreed to changes in their marketing to children after their promotional materials were challenged by consumer advocacy groups. In the Kraft case, a print ad for Post cereals entitled …

Motivating and rewarding employees has never been more important as years of layoffs have left employers with fewer employees, who have been asked to do much more with much less. Donna Oldenburg the show director for the Incentive Show and president of …

Just in time for the holidays, the League of American Theatres and Producers, Inc. is making gift giving a little easier for consumers through a new Visa-branded Broadway gift card, a prepaid card that can be used to buy tickets to Broadway musicals, …

While incentive programs have a big impact on employee productivity and retention, many employees are unhappy with their current programs, according to a recent poll by St. Louis-based Maritz Research. The study reports that, of the 1,002 randomly …