Consumer Marketing

War on the Home Front

|  by Chief Marketer Staff

HOLLYWOOD When the dust settled from their holiday box office battle, there were two solid winners and one dud. Now A Bug's Life, The Rugrats Movie and

Agency Moves

|  by Chief Marketer Staff

Carl Nichols named president at Einson Freeman, Inc., Paramus, NJ.Neal Vitale named president and chief executive officer at Aspen Marketing Group, Evergreen,

In the Driver’s Seat, Almost

Coca-Cola, Atlanta, broke its first national NASCAR promo last month with an under-the-cap sweeps dubbed Coca-Cola Racing Family Reunion.Nine winners

The Beer That Shagged Me

WHITE PLAINS, NY Heineken USA, based here, kicks off a multi-million-dollar promotional campaign in late May to support its sponsorship of New Line Cinema's

Summertime, and Promotin’ Ain’t Easy

Coca-Cola is expected to extend its drive into local promotions this summer with an instant-win sweeps dubbed Red Hot Summer Days. From June 1-August

Aspirin for All Ages

Most shoppers visit drug stores at least once a week whether they're eight or 80 years old, according to retail surveys conducted by Meyers Research,

Sitings

TEN GALLON HIT www.whymilk.com Americans may be going gaga for skim, but on this site you get the whole kit and caboodle. Track the 100-city Better Bones

Account-Specific Spotlight: Buffalo

Buffalo is big on food. The western New York market ranks fourth in the nation in all-commodity dollar volume. It ranks No. 1 among supermarkets offering

In Our Back Pocket

Getting into the pants of millions of teenage girls may sound more like a perverse fantasy than a successful brand-building strategy. But that' s the

Brokering Discounts

Internet researcher Jupiter Communications last year released a study holding that 77 percent of Web surfers would start shopping online if they could