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  • 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

  • Blues Redo

    Kraft Foods is expanding the “I want the blues!” contest it ran for blue box macaroni & cheese last year. The fourth-quarter promo boosted Kraft’s market

  • Beat This!

    Whoever wins this one won’t need to look to Wall Street to make a killing ever again.Thanks to an agreement with Lloyd’s of London, Flycast Communications,

  • Pepsi Targets Aussie Twentysomethings

    SYDNEY – Pepsi has hit the streets with a marketing campaign backed by a multi-million dollar budget to increase the brand’s growth from 5 to 11 percent

  • Malling Betty

    General Mills begins construction this month Betty Crocker Kitchen, a retail bakery outlet in the Mall of America. The store will open in mid-October,

  • Friendly Advice

    Gibraltar Securities Company, a financial services firm, came to us looking to retain customers, inspire new ones, and build its brand imagery. Our challenge

  • Speaking to the Sisterhood

    Best Buy needed only one take to nail the TV spot for its School Gear back-to-school sweepstakes. The premise was familiar: Kids clamor so hard for clothes,

  • The Source on Talent Searches

    The Source, America’s leading hip hop music magazine, has paired with Sprite to promote the Unsigned Hype Live Tour, a 10-market promo that aims at discovering

  • On the Net

    Peapod Excitement! Peapod Inc., Skokie, IL, America’s largest online grocery retailer, announced a multi-year national marketing agreement with Excite