Chief Marketer Staff

• Rudolf Gains More Friends

  NEW YORK Four Christmas themed videos will team with M&M/Mars this holiday season for an offer that includes instant wins, a sweepstakes, and $1 off any

• 100 years of Promotion

  If some 21st century Durkheim wanted insight on how Americans lived in this century, he could do worse than visit the Pillsbury archives, Bake-Off division.

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  Enhanced to Purchase eCommerce Corp.

  ENHANCED SERVICES CO. INC., El Segundo, CA, will buy eCommerce Corp. for a combination of cash and stock. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Stamford,

• Find a Strange Bedfellow

  Promotion is such an incestuous business. How often do you hear people say that? Usually they’re talking about how everybody’s “in bed” with everybody

• Deal Makers

  Susan McMurray hired as vp, international sales, for MGM Consumer Products. She had been vp, licensing, at Strottman International.David Vogler returned

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  Remembering Pete Hoke

  NOT THAT HE needed any tributes from us, but direct marketers lost one of the best friends they ever had with the death of Pete Hoke in July.Pete cared

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  Fox Hits the Fast Lane

  LOS ANGELES Fox will try to extend the tremendous brand loyalty of NASCAR down to its youngest audience when it creates a children’s show based on the

• European Gold Pro Award Winners Chosen

  Promotions from Belgium, England, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Spain, and the Netherlands won 15 gold and 15 silver PRO Awards this year out of a record-breaking

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  Quarterdeck President Hessler Resigns

  CURT HESSLER HAS resigned as president, CEO and director of Quarterdeck Corp., a computer helpware direct marketer/retailer in Marina del Rey, CA. The

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  Bean Sprouts Redesign

  IN RESPONSE TO “sluggish sales and stiffer competition,” apparel cataloger and retailer L.L. Bean is refining its catalog marketing operations and is