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Agencies

  • Impulse: The Sequel

    Last month we wrote about 1-800-Flowers, Godiva Chocolatier and Eddie Bauer using technology from Narrative Communications Corp. to bring impulse buying

  • 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

  • Oops! Catalog Faux Pas

    Nothing in the body, nothing on the body.”That’s the rule Levenger president Steve Leveen said his chief merchandiser adopted after a series of apparel

  • People

    DCI Marketing, Milwaukee, promoted David Steeno to senior account service coordinator for its Detroit office, and hired Mike Haizel as physical distribution

  • Hello, You Failed. Would You Like to Buy a Blender?

    This spring, hundreds of thousands of students found out their grades for the semester over the phone. Before they heard the good (or bad) news they listened

  • May & Speh Acquires Sigma Marketing Group

    May & Speh Inc., Downers Grove, IL, has acquired the assets of Sigma Marketing Group Inc., a full-service database marketing company headquartered in

  • You Beta, You Beta, You Bet

    A FEW TRENDS have come to light in our semiannual roundup of new database products. Most strikingly, the advent of increasingly powerful desktop computers

  • DM Mergers Increase By Almost 100%

    DM mergers, acquisitions and buyouts in the first quarter of 1998 grew 99% over the first quarter of 1997, according to a study released in June by DM

  • DMA Names Catalog VP

    The Direct Marketing Association has named Roscoe Burton Starek III senior vice president, catalog industry. Starek is a former federal trade commissioner

  • R-E-S-P-E-C-T-What Does That Mean to Us?

    Demarcation lines have faded. Direct marketers are respectable at last. Almost as respectable as general advertising executives. Certainly as respectable