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Domaine Chandon is partnering with cable’s Fine Living Network in a video search for the best party-givers in America, and offering as part of the grand prize the chance to throw next year’s holiday entertainment soiree at Chandon’s Napa Valley winery.

Icehouse beer is giving armchair quarterbacks a chance to attend any sporting event in the U.S. in the coming year and see their own face bouncing on a personalized bobble head doll.

Retailers are taking advantage of the popularity of gift cards with new innovations for the holidays.

A record $35 billion is expected to spent on gift cards this holiday season, a 25% jump over the $27.8 billion spent last year, a recent survey found.

Portable electronics maker Nextar today launches a new 4 GB MP3/ MP4 player with a promotion that offers 10 free music downloads to buyers.

BUDGET RENT A CAR: has teamed up with Dunkin’ Donuts to offer customers free coffee with car rentals.

Spending on incentive travel, motivational meetings and special events was $77 billion in 2006, a recent study by the Incentive Research Foundation found.

The proposed $2.25 billion buyout of Acxiom Corp. has fallen through. Former suitors Silver Lake and ValueAct Capital have ponied up $65 million to terminate the deal. Acxiom will remain a publicly traded company.

(Multichannel Merchant) After testing the category for more than a year, discounted apparel, footwear, and outdoor gear merchant Sierra Trading Post has spun off a home products title.

Fenway Sports Group is the guiding force for the third annual Verizon Wireless Campus Tour, hitting northeast college campuses in a concert series to plug the telco’s wireless service