Chief Marketer Staff

• The Good Guys Get Some

  The Coupon Information Corp. recently awarded its Gold Medallion to IRS Special Agent Paul Deery and Assistant United States Attorney Paul Sarmousakis,

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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

• Reclaiming Salem’s Lot

  Joe Camel may be on a respirator, but RJR’s Salem cigarettes, a brand that faded from view after the industry’s price rollback in 1994, is quietly going

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  The Xoom Boom

  XOOM INC., San Francisco (www.xoom.com), runs a Web community with a difference: Unlike most such communities, like GeoCities and Tripod, a large part

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  Account-Specific Spotlight: Houston, TX

  Yes, it’s true: Everything is bigger in Texas. Houston supermarkets are 17 percent bigger in square footage than the national average. Houston is the

• Peel Out

  We were asked by Wrangler to promote its sponsorship of the Dale Earnhardt Number One race car. It seemed easy enough until we started to peel back the

• The Two Lives of Marvin, the Deli King

  Last month, I had to shoot a photograph in the rustic part of Connecticut for a promotion. It was a cool and beautiful Saturday.At lunch I drove around

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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

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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,