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    RICHY’S CANDY, CONES & CHAOS: a new retail chain, has struck an exclusive agreement with Coke to carry its full line of beverages. It will also hold Make-your-own-Coke-Creation

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    THE RADIATE GROUP: Chicago, named Cory Isaacson VP-new business development for the Omnicom-owned event marketing group. He had been a partner at Chicago-based

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    BURGER KING: launched MicroPets Pals this week, a new Kids Meal premium. The MicroPets Pals feature light-up eyes and interactive technology, which allows

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    THE PALM RESTAURANT: is promoting its new line of lobster recipes with its first-ever Million Dollar Lobster Dinner Sweepstakes, a drawing where 4,000

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    NESTL: may sell some unspecified brands and a factory in Brazil in an effort to keep local chocolate company Garoto amid anti-trust concerns. Nestl bought

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    OLD NAVY: San Francisco, named Deutsch, Los Angeles, to handle its $181 million advertising account. Deutsch is first agency of record for the Gap division,

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    KRAFT FOODS: CEO Roger Deromedi will return to work May 10 after being hospitalized suddenly on March 27 (April 6 Xtra). Deromedi was diagnosed with a

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    DIC ENTERTAINMENT: is taking the classic spiky-haired Trolls and updating them with a new line of tween-aged characters called Trollz, which it will market

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    U.S. BANK: has become the title sponsor of the Greater Milwaukee Open PGA Tour event, ending the tournament’s 36-year history without a title sponsor.

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    DISCOVERY NETWORKS: has hired BBC Two Controller Jane Root as executive VP and general manager of the Discovery Channel in the U.S. She takes the spot