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  • The Girls Are Back In Town

    Nice girls did not finish last in the 2001 Licensing Excellence Awards. Properties featuring female characters Powerpuff Girls, Barbie, and Eloise were

  • SPECTRA SPOTLIGHT

    Rug Cleaner Consumer Profile

  • Promotional Products: Swagger in Their Step

    Promotional product spending again posts double-digit gain.

  • Bad is Good

    Coupon clippers rejoice. Those involved in the manufacture, distribution, and fulfillment of coupons give a cautious thumbs-up, too. With consumer confidence

  • Walking the Tight Rope

    Rebates have always been a double-edged sword. They can stimulate sales on high-cost, slow-moving products, but can dilute brand equity and cut into profits

  • Reviving the couch potato

    In the early 1990s, before the Internet explosion, pundits heralded interactive television, or ITV, as the new media gateway to the Great Unwashed. Greater

  • Value Ads

    It’s ironic, really, to see an image ad for Happy Meals. McDonald’s turned up the emotional volume on Happy Meal ads last month, breaking its most extensive

  • smoke.com

    You’ve got a long way to go, baby. Legal and tax challenges have hit the booming online tobacco business as states seek to limit direct cigarette sales