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  • RELATIONSHIP MARKETING: Hershel’s New Role

    Hershel B. Sarbin, former president and CEO of Cowles Business Media, has a new job. He has joined Marketing 1to1/ Peppers and Rogers Group, a relationship

  • Smart Bombing

    The 31 American Tire & Service Co. stores under Scott Hook’s oversight had participated in mass advertising programs before, but in late 1997 Hook wanted

  • Campaign Targets Indulgent Dog Owners

    Heinz Pet Products, St. Louis, will send out samples of Pup-Peroni later this month. While Heinz has been making the dog treats for 10 years, the campaign

  • DISNEY DIRECT MARKETING

    Michael Eisner, the high-powered CEO of The Walt Disney Co., has a simple formula for his managers: You have to achieve regular annual growth of 20% to

  • CRIME: Fatal Mail Order?

    Marvin Patrick Sullivan, a former mental patient, is accused of killing Millbrae, CA police officer David Chetcuti with a rifle that may have been built

  • Back to the Drawing Board

    Back to the 50’s, a mail order catalog owned by Crowne Ventures Corp., Las Vegas, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on April 8. But this summer

  • Just be yourself: HICKORY FARMS

    When Hickory Farms decided to launch its Web site three years ago, some thought the catalog should feature more exotic fare than the hearty staples that

  • Back to the Drawing Board

    Back to the 50’s, a mail order catalog owned by Crowne Ventures Corp., Las Vegas, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on April 8. But this summer

  • Picture Perfect

    Kodak is relaunching an infomercial for the DC210 digital camera this month, after a successful test for Christmas 1997.The half-hour program will be

  • National Semiconductor Launches Online Services

    Surprising though it may seem, it took until just last month for one of the world’s leading technology companies to jump on the electronic ordering and