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  • All Mail REVUE

    Direct mail doesn’t get Tony Awards, nor does it get caricatured and hung on the wall of Sardi’s. But it has become an integral component in making a

  • 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

  • CATALOG CAPITAL

    Experts agree: It’s difficult to generalize about how publicly traded consumer catalogs are doing on Wall Street. For one thing, direct marketing companies

  • Magazine Circulation-Avant-Garde or Antediluvian

    The economics of magazine circulation haven’t changed much in the last 70 years or so. Subscribers pay in advance for a set number of issues, the publisher

  • 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

  • The Click-Through War

    Who’s got the better click-through rate on Web banner advertising-Flycast or DoubleClick? And should anyone even care?In March, RelevantKnowledge, Chicago,

  • People

    Yankelovich Partners Inc., Norwalk, CT, named Dr. Thomas E. Vasquez president/CEO. John Struck, former president/CEO, will become chairman of Yankelovich

  • DIRECTNEWSLINE

    DM Deals Hit $38 Billion in ’97 The combined value of strategic direct marketing transactions-including mergers, acquisitions and buyouts-reached $38