Topic

Agencies

  • Don’t Quote Me-PLEASE

    IT’S ALWAYS NICE to be quoted in a prestigious newspaper like The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe or the

  • Start Your Engines

    SEARCH ENGINES are still the favorite way for consumers to find products on the Web. More than ever, it’s important to be savvy about how search engines

  • Remembering Pete Hoke

    NOT THAT HE needed any tributes from us, but direct marketers lost one of the best friends they ever had with the death of Pete Hoke in July.Pete cared

  • DOWNSIZING

    Acxiom/DMI Lays Off 30 ACXIOM/DIRECT MEDIA, Greenwich, CT, laid off 30 employees-some 5% of its work force-last month. The terminations came as part of

  • DMA Names Prescott International VP

    THE DIRECT MARKETING ASSOCIATION has named Charles A. Prescott vice president of international business development and government affairs. Prescott is

  • CROSSFIRE

    THE LIST BUSINESS is facing many of the problems it encountered last year, with a couple of new twists-intensified merger activity, increased client demands

  • 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

  • Bean Sprouts Redesign

    IN RESPONSE TO “sluggish sales and stiffer competition,” apparel cataloger and retailer L.L. Bean is refining its catalog marketing operations and is

  • 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