Search Results For: loyalty

  • ABC, Proteus Launch Online Store For Cell Phone Content

    Can’t get enough of daytime TV or your favorite ABC show? Scenes or music from popular soap operates and primetime TV are just a flip of a phone away under a new deal between ABC Television Network and Proteus, a mobile content provider. This month, the …

  • What Becomes a Luxury Brand Most?

    Running glossy ads featuring a hot celeb in upscale magazines, a la Blackglama’s “What Becomes a Legend Most?” campaign, is not enough to ensure the longevity of a luxury brand, argues Pamela Danziger of Unity Marketing.

  • Chevron and Texaco Open Up Business Gift Card to Consumers

    Chevron’s Credit Card Enterprises has launched its Chevron and Texaco Consumer Gift Card Program at retail locations across the country. The re-loadable electronic gift cards, designed to build customer loyalty and offer a convenient payment method, …

  • P&I Postscripts

    MCDONALD’S CORP.: will offer a special incentive this month to encourage trial of its new chicken menu offerings. From Aug. 11 to 14. The QSR will hand out Premium Chicken Sandwich menus featuring coupons for a free medium drink and a medium fry with …

  • Frontier Airlines Launches New Online Reward Programs

    Frequent flier reward programs has taken on a whole new meaning for Frontier Airlines, which has rolled out a new program that lets customers use their miles to shop and bid on items from an online auction. The More Store, an online miles shopping site, …

  • Federated to Put Macy’s Name on 330 Stores

    Federated Department Stores will rename about 330 stores as Macy’s when it completes its merger with The May Department Stores Co. Ten regional names will disappear in fall 2006 when Federated converts the May-owned chains: Famous-Barr, Filene’s, …

  • Safeway Rallies 40 CPGs for School Fundraiser

    Safeway taps its Safeway Club Card loyalty program to raise as much as $10 million for local schools. The 10% Back to Schools effort involves 40 packaged goods companies who will donate 10% of sales on 1,700 participating brands bought by Safeway Club …

  • Gas Discounts Rile Competitors

    A California judge has ordered one Safeway store in Hollister, CA, to stop selling gasoline below cost in response to a year-old suit from a local competitor. The suit, filed in May 2004 by Dassel’s Petroleum, Inc., contends that Safeway’s …

  • Case History: Celestial Seasonings Brews An E-Zine

    Can an e-newsletter be viewed as a detriment by loyal customers? That was the question Celestial Seasonings struggled with when it considered launching an e-zine for its popular tea.

  • Mail Stream: A Report on Incoming Direct Mail

    Horchow Offers “Retreat” You may go for a few weeks in the summer or a few hours every Sunday afternoon,” reads the dreamy-eyed copy inside the new Horchow Retreat catalog, which mailed with two different covers illustrating two distinct …