News Briefs

BROOKSTONE: is out with a holiday sweepstakes offering the chance to win a $500 Brookstone gift card. People visit http://www.Brookstone.com and enter their e-mail address for a chance to win through Dec. 24. All entrants will receive a $5 gift card. Online marketing supports the promotion.

T.G.I. FRIDAY’S: restaurants has formed a national partnership with the
Make-A-Wish Foundation of America, which grants the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions. Under the partnership, money raised by T.G.I. Friday’s USA and the Carlson Restaurants Worldwide Support Center, the parent company of the Friday’s will benefit the organization. The chain has pledged $250,000 by December 2008.