Q&As

Starbucks is making a series of changes at its stores in an effort to transform the customer experience and perk up sales.

Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream is pushing sales of its Slow Churned Light Ice Cream with a gift with purchase offer for a free CD.

Today we meet Beth Stewart, president and founder of Carlsbad, CA-based list brokerage and management firm Infocore Inc.

Nickelodeon has expanded its pop culture presence from cable TV to a seven-acre theme park in the Mall of America.

Next plc, parent of the Next Directory catalog, posted net income of $353.9 million pounds ($701.3 million) for the year ended Jan. 31, a 6.8% increase over 331.5 million pounds ($656.9 million) in the prior year.

Charming Shoppes Inc. posted a net loss of $23 million for the fourth quarter compared to net income of $24.9 million in the prior year.

360i, a digital marketing agency, has acquired digital design, and marketing firm I33 communications.

Hannaford Bros. Co. revealed that its computer network had been hacked, and that credit and debit card numbers belonging to customers of its chain of supermarkets had been stolen. Hannaford also said it knew of

The U.S. Postal Service may need to file a new notice with the Postal Regulatory Commission in order to justify a 1.4 cent-per-piece discount it wants to offer mailers in return for putting barcodes on certain standard mail pieces.

American financial services institutions are increasingly their use of direct marketing, according to a Direct Marketing Association report which found that the $13.4 billion that U.S. banks and credit institutions spent last year on direct marketing advertising generated $178.8 billion in sales.