Topic

Experiential

  • Clark Zones In: New c-store format plays up brands.

    Clark Retail Enterprises, Glen Ellyn, IL, opens its newest convenience store format, Oh! Zone, this month in Normal, IL, with plans to add six stores

  • Cash register to-go

    Okay, you’ve got the Web site up. If you’re ready to add a sales component, consider Ubrandit.com. The new company provides turn-key e-commerce by overlaying

  • Wal H Mart: Drives the Decade

    Perhaps the most telling image for consumer products marketers of the ’90s was captured the decade before, when a grass-skirted Sam Walton danced the

  • Retail 2000 Survival Tactics

    In our last few columns we discussed the realities of the consolidating marketplace and ways to increase clout with retail “partners.” In the not-too-distant

  • Sample Patter

    Cox Target Media, St. Petersburg, FL, formed a new consumer sampling division to develop targeted solo and co-op mailings and handle Internet and direct-mail

  • Check This Out:

    Scoring in-store requires more planning and cooperation than ever before. Unless you’ve got Produce Man on your side.A well-executed in-store promotion

  • Clicks and mortar

    Call it a traffic-building U-turn. A brand runs its Web site on kiosks in store aisles to tap store traffic into its site. Get it? Retailers – including

  • Retailers: Family Trees

    In the age of consolidation, it’s often hard to keep track of retailers without the proverbial scorecard. Here’s a rundown of the chains and regional

  • Your Tax Dollars at Work: Compaq uses street tactics to spur federal sales.

    For federal employees, Washington DC’s summer heat wave was business as usual. For Compaq Computers, it was a marketing breakthrough.Compaq launched a

  • Converging in Bentonville

    Convergence – I’m tired of the whole trendy idea. We’re all waiting around watching “convergence” happening, and I suppose it is. Television and www.com.