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ABI Brass Hints at New Moves AMERICAN BUSINESS INFORMATION, Omaha, NE, has completed a bond offering that allows it to retire $80 million in debt from

SEARCH ENGINES are still the favorite way for consumers to find products on the Web. More than ever, it’s important to be savvy about how search engines

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

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

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

THE DIRECT MARKETING ASSOCIATION has named Charles A. Prescott vice president of international business development and government affairs. Prescott is

THE LIST BUSINESS is facing many of the problems it encountered last year, with a couple of new twists-intensified merger activity, increased client demands

IT’S ALWAYS NICE to be quoted in a prestigious newspaper like The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe or the

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

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