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  • GET BACK TO THE BASICS

    “BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU wish for.” For business-to-business marketers, this old adage has never been more true.B-to-Bers have abundant sales and marketing

  • What’s Hot and What’s Not

    The great majority of consumers continued to cling to coupons, advertising rebounded as a percentage of promotional activity, and account-specific programs

  • CBS Casts Eye On Promotion

    Promotion agencies owned by CBS Radio, including New York-based WINS Promotion Group, are changing to a single name as the CBS division positions its

  • New Products

    That’s a Wrap CapBanners can transform a cap simply by applying a banner across the front of an existing cap. The banners from Sales Ahead!, Irvine, CA,

  • Account-Specific Spotlight: Atlanta

    There’s been a second march on Atlanta, and the victors this time are Publix and Wal-Mart. The two chains have captured a combined 25 share in the last

  • Pokemon Phenomenon

    Kentucky Fried Chicken, Louisville, KY, will outfit its 5,000 stores with a fourth-quarter premium and sampling campaign tied to characters from what’s

  • Buy Right

    Right Choice Services, Inc., Minneapolis, acquired the fulfillment division of Mascoutah, IL-based NCH/Nuworld Marketing, a leading coupon clearinghouse.

  • Loyalty Has Its Privileges

    A college friend once ran for student government president on the sole campaign promise he would shake the hand of every student on campus.Marla Isackson,

  • NEW LISTS

    Direct Sales Inc. The 90,000 individuals listed responded by phone to a Direct Sales mail piece offering a chance to win various prizes. Everyone on the

  • Resetting the Shelf

    With Albertson’s and American Stores merged, can Kroger and Safeway be far behind? Apparently, they can be.Though rumors boomeranged about a merger between