Q&As

Jos. A. Bank Clothiers Inc. reported net sales of $49.9 million for September, an 8.2% increase over net sales of $46.1 million last year.

EachNet, a Chinese Alliance online auctioneer, has hired Alliance Data Systems Corp.’s Epsilon International division to provide permission-based e-mail marketing systems.

Frito-Lay is using music as the backdrop for a new promotion once again tapping consumer-generated content tied to the Super Bowl.

Doritos’ latest “Crash the Super Bowl” contest, which launched yesterday, asks people to submit original music for a chance to have their tune aired during Super Bowl XLII on Feb. 3. The chipmaker plans to show a 60-second commercial in the form of a video using the winning song as its Big Game ad buy.

NBC Universal and MasterCard have struck a novel marketing partnership to create additional content for the police drama “Life” in the form of “pod busters.”

MSNBC.om and Nissan have created an interactive news quiz with a companion sweepstakes contest.

Sunny Delight beverages will enter the bottled water business by purchasing Fruit20 Water from Kraft Foods Inc., the companies said.

Today we meet Lisa Pollack, part of the list brokerage team at Adrea Rubin Marketing Inc. Pollack joined her family’s firm in 1991.

The U.S. Postal service is proposing revisions to its addressing standards for letter-size pieces mailed at automation, presorted and carrier route rates.

A federal judge has issued a temporary injunction and frozen the assets of a group of online marketers the Federal Trade Commission claims used spam to sell weight-loss and human-growth-hormone anti-aging products that don’t work, the FTC announced Wednesday.

CVS/pharmacy is out with a $25 million dollar campaign honoring women’s roles as nurturers and caregivers, and is letting them share their personal stories via on an online community for a chance to win $25,000.