Consumer Marketing

Agency Moves

|  by Chief Marketer Staff

Bob Howards named president at Alliance Marketing Group, Fairfield, CT. Also at the agency, Jane Fichtenkort named to lead a new Mobile Marketing Group,

Dream Merchant

Dupont division asks food leaders to rethink their resumes.To capture attention for Supro, a new soy-based food ingredient, Protein Technologies invited

General Mills Plays Games

General Mills of Minneapolis and Sony Computer Entertainment of Foster City, CA, joined on a three-month promotion offering $5 coupons good for PlayStation

Yahoo! We’ve Got Toilet Paper

New York City-based mybasics.com, an online health and beauty care shopping service, reached a marketing agreement with Palo Alto, CA-based Web portal

Spatial Relations

CULVER CITY, CA Muppets From Space will not want for creature comforts when it hits theaters July 23. The sixth live-action Muppet caper, produced by

Brief Encounter

UNIVERSAL CITY, CA Dissatisfied with what she called a lack of support from above, Lori Sale left Universal Motion Picture Group in February after serving

Leveraging Furby

Looking to capitalize on the national craze for the interactive Furby doll, Oakbrook, IL-based McDonald's is giving away scaled-down versions of the toy

Not Promotion, Optimization

Speaking of Impact Communications Group's "holistic" integration with Foote, Cone & Belding's advertising operation in our story on page 42, FCB Chicago

Squeeze Play

Using free downloads as a promotion device is becoming as popular as an Aerosmith movie theme. Among the more recent acts to offer online samples of upcoming