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  • 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

  • People: Marketing Services

    Chris Crosby named chief operating officer and Marla Aberegg executive vp at Fitch, Inc., Worthington, OH. Also at the company the following were promoted

  • Agency Moves

    Lori Leiva named vp account director at Frankel & Co., Chicago. Also at the agency, Jon Ford named account director at Frankel Direct, and Jay Gaylen

  • Drawing Heavily on China

    NORTH HOLLYWOOD, CA – The Disney feature film Mulan, provides the theme for a new Web site sweepstakes that offers hundreds of prizes, including a $500

  • Detox for Discounters

    What is the worst word in the marketer’s lexicon? To me, it’s “discounting,” a word that is defined as “cutting the price,” but really means “incenting

  • Hollywood Holds the Line

    Marketers spent an estimated $5.14 billion on promotional licenses in 1997, a 3 percent increase driven mostly by film tie-ins. At the same time, consumer

  • 100G prize marks Gund centennial.

    EDISON, NJ – Any Teddy Bear can make you happy, but it takes a special one to make you rich.In celebration of 100 years of business, plush toymaker Gund

  • DEMOGRAPHICS

    Dustin Hoffman gave us our first image of a man raising a child in “Kramer vs. Kramer.” But it was the image of Michael Keaton at home that gave the concept