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  • Who Can We Blame – Anyone?

    I recently had the opportunity to talk with some senior-level retailers. We discussed a number of subjects and ended up talking about how consumers hate

  • The Tyranny of Incompetence

    Message to retailers, lest you be tempted too soon to rest upon your laurels as newly minted experts (cover story) in the 1/2eld of customer-specific

  • Excellence As Needed

    TradeZone, Westport, CT, has started up a new division “dedicated to ensuring flawless execution of co-marketing programs.” Called BackRoom, the new division

  • Click and Rent

    For all those people who bought DVD players because of the promise of a better picture, many are finding it frustrating to rent titles like they would

  • HARLEY DAVIDSON

    The first thing Gaye Littell did after wrapping up Harley Davidson’s 95th anniversary blowout this summer was de-brief Harley’s staff to start planning

  • Bright and Baubly

    Teen magazine, published by Los Angeles-based Petersen Companies, and TeenShop, a division of Buy-Rite Costume Jewelry, Freehold, NJ, have signed a licensing

  • Dialing Up Clients

    Jones Naughton Entertainment Inc., San Diego, CA, and its AMS Inc. subsidiary, announced that they will offer free prepaid calling cards to existing advertising

  • 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