Chief Marketer Staff

• 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

• True True North

  True North Communications, New York, has grouped its promotion agencies including Market Growth Resources, Wilton, CT, and McCracken Brooks Communications,

• Deal Makers

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

• Agencies

  Those Crazy, Not-So-Lazy Days of Summer

  CORPORATE shuffleboard has been the summer game of choice for OgilvyOne, Cramer-Krasselt and J. Walter Thompson.OgilvyOne Worldwide lost Wendy Riches

• Agencies

  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

• Agencies

  Adding the U.K. to the Data Pool

  THE STEADY TAKEOVER of the U.K. DM industry by America continues-but it’s not just about dollars flooding in to buy upBritish suppliers. The U.K. market

• Agencies

  Establishing a Relationship Marketing Program

  THIS IS PART TWO of an excerpt on relationship marketing from the upcoming third edition of David Shepard Associates’ “The New Direct Marketing” (McGraw-Hill).Much

• 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

• Agencies

  Amex Accused of Bias Against Hasidic Jews

  A NEW YORK jeweler has sued American Express Travel Related Services, claiming Amex is excluding from its catalogs items from vendors owned by Hasidic