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  • TRADE & SALESFORCE

    Home Delivery/USA Of course it’s important to know your customer, but for Packard Bell, it became crucial to get to know its retail salespeople – and

  • Style Points

    Because of the incredible success and buzz created by this promotion for Levi Strauss’s Slates slacks, Chris and Matt were deluged by interview requests.

  • FOOD

    Chex Quest/USA Even the hardened promotion pros who served as World PRO Award judges scratched their heads in wonder over how Ralston Purina could afford

  • The Nation’s Top Promoted Brands

    There’s a classic Far Side cartoon that shows Einstein at his blackboard, puzzling through a ridiculously convoluted formula. In the middle, tucked among

  • Ai Quiero!

    Taco Bell capitalizes on Dinky fever this holiday season with plush dogs that speak when you squeeze them. Four different dogs wear accessories and say

  • Account-Specific Spotlight: Detroit

    Motor City markets are big on coupons, but short on some of the services that are standard in other cities. Detroit is the No. 1 market for stores offering

  • Samsung Joins MovieFone

    For the second time, Samsung Electronics America will team with MovieFone for a sweepstakes that offers Samsung’s electronic gear as prizes.Callers to

  • Dialing up Youth

    Mervyn’s California paired with Sprint FonPromotions and Sam Goody music stores to grab the cool, teenaged, skateboard crowd in a back-to-school promo.In

  • Coming in next month’s PROMO

    Top-Promoted Brands Which brands spend the most time, money, and thought on promotion? You’ll find out in our December issue when our editors profile

  • Account-Specific Spotlight: Phoenix

    Phoenix grocers are big on free samples, but light on frequent-shopper deals. Only 11 percent of stores here have frequent-shopper programs. Fully 94