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MEDIA WATCH: DRTV Guide
Considering it’s on the coffee table of almost every household in America, TV Guide could be viewed as a fairly populist magazine. It comes as a surprise,
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Coke Has ’em Drinking in the Aisles: Goes great with pizza samples.
Talk about your single-serve. Coca-Cola is inching up supermarket sales one sip at a time with Shop Refreshed, an in-store program that invites shoppers
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F&G Buys Two, Sells Two
Horticulture direct marketer Foster & Gallagher Inc., Peoria, IL, has acquired two plant catalogs – Gurney’s Seed & Nursery Co. and Henry Field’s Seed
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The Steak – and the Sizzle
A tight labor market in its home base of Omaha, NE, turned up the heat on Omaha Steaks Inc.’s teleservices operations, leading the mail order meat marketer
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Silly Sneaker Site
Nike’s revamped Web site (www.nike.com) proves to be an interesting exercise in frustration. Its mix of Gen-X graphics, celebrity endorsements, products
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1to1, the Magazine
The future predicted by Don Peppers and Martha Rogers is already here.U.S. firms have awakened to the realization that customers are lifetime corporate
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Direct Response Acquires Solar Direct
Consumer card pack publisher Direct Response Inc., Omaha, NE, has purchased Solar Direct, the card pack publishing division of Solar Communications Inc.
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New York Times Targets Chinese-American Market
The New York Times has made its first attempt at targeting an ethnic market with a multimedia direct response campaign aimed at Chinese Americans in New
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Hanging on the Telephone
If you’re planning on moving anytime soon, I have some advice. Don’t! Stay put! So your roof leaks and every house on the block has been burglarized twice
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Online Brokering the Food Deal
Dave Laukat knew he had to find a better way.Laukat had built Chicago-based Best Foods into a $42-million-a-year business by supplying such giants as