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  • Leveraging Furby

    Looking to capitalize on the national craze for the interactive Furby doll, Oakbrook, IL-based McDonald’s is giving away scaled-down versions of the toy

  • Yahoo! We’ve Got Toilet Paper

    New York City-based mybasics.com, an online health and beauty care shopping service, reached a marketing agreement with Palo Alto, CA-based Web portal

  • Not Promotion, Optimization

    Speaking of Impact Communications Group’s “holistic” integration with Foote, Cone & Belding’s advertising operation in our story on page 42, FCB Chicago

  • Brief Encounter

    UNIVERSAL CITY, CA Dissatisfied with what she called a lack of support from above, Lori Sale left Universal Motion Picture Group in February after serving

  • General Mills Plays Games

    General Mills of Minneapolis and Sony Computer Entertainment of Foster City, CA, joined on a three-month promotion offering $5 coupons good for PlayStation

  • Dream Merchant

    Dupont division asks food leaders to rethink their resumes.To capture attention for Supro, a new soy-based food ingredient, Protein Technologies invited

  • Squeeze Play

    Using free downloads as a promotion device is becoming as popular as an Aerosmith movie theme. Among the more recent acts to offer online samples of upcoming

  • Spatial Relations

    CULVER CITY, CA Muppets From Space will not want for creature comforts when it hits theaters July 23. The sixth live-action Muppet caper, produced by

  • In the Driver’s Seat, Almost

    Coca-Cola, Atlanta, broke its first national NASCAR promo last month with an under-the-cap sweeps dubbed Coca-Cola Racing Family Reunion.Nine winners

  • Brokering Discounts

    Internet researcher Jupiter Communications last year released a study holding that 77 percent of Web surfers would start shopping online if they could