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  • Promo Spending Falls

    Packaged goods companies have shifted $12 billion to trade promotion from consumer marketing since 1997, despite their intentions to cut trade spending.

  • Shopping lists

    Imagine a national database that combines loyalty-card shopping data with purchase data from all other classes of trade. Catalina Marketing Corp., St.

  • Even Better Than the Real Thing

    She has graced dozens of magazine covers and innumerable bedroom walls. She has starred in TV commercials, has her own clothing line, and will make her

  • The “C” Stands For “Co”

    Six million people bought coffee at 7-Eleven this morning. And your brand could have been on the cups.As co-marketing spending tops $11 billion, packaged

  • Game Commentary

    Are games, contests, and sweepstakes suffering from overexposure? Respondents to a recent promo Readers’ Poll said they believe that the popular promotions’

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  • Weighty Proposition: America becomes a nation of iron-pumpers.

    If it wasn’t so heavy to ship, the dumbbell could well become the promotion business’s next big premium item. Working out with free weights is now the

  • DoubleClick, Abacus Score Direct Hit

    With the buzz surrounding target marketing and Internet advertising exploding, it should come as no surprise giants from each of these markets, Abacus

  • BROKER BASH

    What do you get when you put eight list brokers in a room?Some very blunt remarks about almost everything.DIRECT learned this in June when it conducted

  • DMA Launches Privacy Promise

    The Direct Marketing Association’s long-awaited Privacy Promise policy went into effect July 1. DMA members must follow a set of consumer privacy protection

  • Sunbelt Rises: New call center expands outbound calling efforts for brokerage

    Call volume for Sunbelt First Financial Inc. should increase substantially this fall when Florida joins the list of six states where the firm is licensed