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  • Catalina Marketing Sells Research Division

    Catalina Marketing Corp. of St. Petersburg, FL, has sold its research division for undisclosed terms to Schulman, Ronca & Bucuvalas Inc. (SRBI), a New York based market research firm.

  • Best Buy Cheers For Cell Phones in Theaters

    Best Buy this week breaks an in-theater campaign that touts cell phones on the screen and in the lobby. Nokia and Verizon co-sponsor the campaign, which centers on an ad breaking today in AMC Theaters nationally. The spot mimics movie trailers, showing …

  • Listline e-Newsletter

    Human resource executives — including personnel specialists; HR and
    personnel managers or directors; corporate recruiters and HR
    coordinators; HR administrators, specialists and consultants; and office
    managers — are featured on this new 65,149 record file from Worldata.

  • Employee Attitudes Have Big Impact on Bottom Line: Study

    A direct link exists between employee satisfaction, customer satisfaction and a company’s financial performance, even if the employees have no direct contact with customers. Those findings are part of a new study, The Impact of Employee Attitudes on …

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  • Aegis Buys Velocity Sports in Deal That Could Hit $26 Million

    Citing an interest in taking its sponsorship and lifestyle marketing specialty abroad, Velocity Sports and Entertainment LLC said it would be acquired by London-based agency holding company Aegis. Aegis will acquire 100% of Velocity shares, which are …

  • ABC Controversy Pulls Millions in Media Mentions

    While ABC’s cross promotion of Monday Night Football and Desperate Housewives outraged millions of viewers, the network may have gotten what it truly wished for, media mentions that equaled about $10 million in advertising. The exposure value is based …

  • Cendant Promotes Two Marketing Veterans

    Cendant Corp. promoted Peter Strebel to executive VP-chief marketing officer of its Hotel Group and Jean Thomas to senior VP-marketing, a new post in its Hospitality Services division.      Strebel              Thomas           Strebel will oversee …

  • Mail Stream: A Report on Incoming Direct Mail

    Mark Shale Celebrates 75 Years Throughout 2004, the covers of all Mark Shale catalogs have featured a small graphic that reads “Celebrating 75 Years,” which refers to the anniversary of the opening of the first retail store outside of Chicago in 1929. …

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  • Beating the Filter Odds

    Sometimes it seems like everybody’s putting up roadblocks for e-mail direct marketing campaigns.

  • Live from PROMO Expo: Activation Is More Than Just Signage

    It’s a mantra that’s been repeated in a number of sessions: If you’re going to buy a sponsorship, you better save some cash to activate it. Coca-Cola learned that tough lesson a few years back when it bought a NASCAR race sponsorship but didn’t follow …