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Oops! Catalog Faux Pas
Nothing in the body, nothing on the body.”That’s the rule Levenger president Steve Leveen said his chief merchandiser adopted after a series of apparel
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Hello, You Failed. Would You Like to Buy a Blender?
This spring, hundreds of thousands of students found out their grades for the semester over the phone. Before they heard the good (or bad) news they listened
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Account-Specific Spotlight: Hartford/New Haven, CT
Hartford and New Haven supermarkets are big on service and specialty departments. Seventy percent of stores in the area have prepared-food departments,
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May & Speh Acquires Sigma Marketing Group
May & Speh Inc., Downers Grove, IL, has acquired the assets of Sigma Marketing Group Inc., a full-service database marketing company headquartered in
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You Beta, You Beta, You Bet
A FEW TRENDS have come to light in our semiannual roundup of new database products. Most strikingly, the advent of increasingly powerful desktop computers
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DM Mergers Increase By Almost 100%
DM mergers, acquisitions and buyouts in the first quarter of 1998 grew 99% over the first quarter of 1997, according to a study released in June by DM
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Hollywood Holds the Line
Marketers spent an estimated $5.14 billion on promotional licenses in 1997, a 3 percent increase driven mostly by film tie-ins. At the same time, consumer
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DMA Names Catalog VP
The Direct Marketing Association has named Roscoe Burton Starek III senior vice president, catalog industry. Starek is a former federal trade commissioner
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R-E-S-P-E-C-T-What Does That Mean to Us?
Demarcation lines have faded. Direct marketers are respectable at last. Almost as respectable as general advertising executives. Certainly as respectable