Search Results for: results
-
Agencies
Residential Delivery Cold-Shouldered by USPS Rivals
THIS PAST holiday season more people made gift purchases over the Internet than ever before, bringing package deliverers record volumes of new business.According
-
Agencies
Wireless Phones Reach Their Party
WIRELESS TELEPHONES are no longer merely for intense urbanites who can’t run out for a cup of coffee without staying in touch. Heaven forbid they could
-
Agencies
Rewards vs. Relationships: Which Really Builds Loyalty?
TODAY’S CONSUMERS ARE bombarded with mail from service providers that claim to have a special relationship with them. They get thank-you notes from the
-
Agencies
Tower of Babel
FIRMS PLANNING TO implement customer contact and retention systems for the first time should take heed: The deck is stacked. Just under one-third of these
-
Six PA Energy Firms Lead Customer Switching: Study
Six electric companies have emerged as clear winners in their bid for customers in Pennsylvania, where more than 300,000 customers have switched energy
-
DMA Ethics Panel Hears 22 Cases in Fourth Quarter
The Direct Marketing Association’s committee on ethical business practice handled 22 cases between September and November, 1998, with eight of the cases
-
Diplomat Direct Feels Effect of Acquisitions
Diplomat Direct Marketing Corp., Stony Point, NY, had net annual sales of $74.6 million, up from $17.5 million in 1997. Diplomat’s income from continuing
-
Beyond.com To Acquire BuyDirect.com for Over $133 Million
Internet software superstore Beyond.com has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Buydirect.com in a stock-for-stock transaction valued at more than
-
Torstar Sells Troll Communications for $70 Million
Canadian media conglomerate Torstar Corp., based in Toronto, has sold Troll Communications, its children’s’ books direct marketing operation which lost
-
Sitel Reports Net Loss of $1.1M for 1998
Sitel Corp., Baltimore, reported net income of $1.1 million on revenue of $154.5 million for the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31, 1998, compared with a net