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Wendy’s Sharpens Focus with $31 Million Baja Fresh Sale
Wendy’s International, Inc. said it is focusing its efforts on its main Wendy’s franchise with the sale of the Baja Fresh Mexican Grill restaurant chain.
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Home Depot Shuffles Execs, Names Adams CMO
The Home Depot promoted Roger Adams to CMO last week in a management shuffle that separates marketing from merchandising in order to improve both at the store level.
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Loose Cannon: A Few Pearl(stein)s of Wisdom Close to DMA Annual
During a recent cleaning frenzy, I came across two columns from Washington Post business reporter Steven Pearlstein. I
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Web Site Offers Designer Bags for Rent
Kara Richter had one goal in mind when she co-founded From Bags to Riches in 2004: bringing high fashion to people in the not-so-high income brackets.
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Palsy-Walsy
Shades of 1999! Social networks got hot this summer when both Google and Microsoft announced deals to add search and syndicated contextual ads to MySpace
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Magical Thinking
JUSTIFICATION IS THE name of the game when it comes to determining a direct marketing budget. It’s no longer good enough to make generalizations about
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Attention to Retention
TEN YEARS AGO, Frederick Reichheld’s The Loyalty Effect demonstrated to the world that a five-percentage-point decrease in customer defections could improve
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It Could Get Ugly
RETAILERS THAT STILL USE all-HTML e-mail and there apparently are a lot of them are in for a horrendous online holiday shopping season, according to Epsilon
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Need for ROI Leads Firms to DM
THE AGE OF ACCOUNTABILITY has arrived. Marketers will spend $961.9 billion on communications this year. And return on investment will play a big role
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Eight O’Clock Coffee Blends TV, Web
Eight O’Clock Coffee has one of the oldest brand names in America. But the company launched as a private label by A&P Stores in 1859, sold to an investment