Articles by Chief Marketer Staff

Prizewinning growth

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Marketers spent $24 billion on premiums in 1997, with growth in consumer and business-to-business premiums boosting the category 6 percent. The segment

Big Foot

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Back in the spring of 1997, we began brainstorming and searching for the big idea that would win us the Duracell business for its fourth quarter promotion

The Old College Try

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In the movie Risky Business, Tom Cruise plays a high school senior struggling to decide whether to stay on the straight-and-narrow or to put a little

Acxiom Corp. Beefs Up

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CONWAY, AK - Acxiom Corp has agreed to acquire May & Speh Inc., a direct market competitor, for stock valued at $17.44 a share or about $625 million,

When the Smoke Clears

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Brad Burmaster recalls the day two RJ Reynolds sales reps visited the construction site of his new store, Light House, in suburban Chicago. The hardwood

PromoNews

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WHITE PLAINS, NY - Nabisco Holdings Corp., seeking to turn around its flagging sales, will boost marketing and ad spending by 30 percent for its cookies

Association News

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A Rose for IMRA Group elects new president. NAPERVILLE, IL - Rosemary Mills Luedke, president of Rose Incentives, was elected president of the Incentive

The Branded Generation

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Seven billion dollars. Seven billion dollars. That's how much the promotion industry added to its total last year, according to the the 1998 Annual Report

Good Vibes

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NASCAR racing is less well known in the western U.S. than in the rest of the country. So when Tosco Marketing wanted to help the racing league celebrate