Topic

Promotion

  • Universality

    Universal Consumer Products Group doesn’t want to be a one-hit wonder anymore.”We used to do one big picture a year, but now we want to broaden our program,”

  • The Mall in the Family Room

    Study shows online shopper gains in software, book purchases.If you are a marketer of books, airline tickets, or computer software, you might give extra

  • Change In Store

    The last two years have witnessed a voracious feeding frenzy in the food retailing industry: Albertson’s Inc., Boise, ID, America’s fifth largest U.S.

  • Account-Specific Spotlight: Minneapolis-St. Paul

    Minneapolis is about as modest as a marketplace gets. Supermarkets here have the fewest health and beauty care, paper goods, beer, and books/magazines

  • Reel Deals

    MAGNOLIA (New Line Cinema)Estimated Release Date: December 1999Starring: Julianne Moore, William H. Macy, Henry Gibson,Jason RobardsTop Line: Written

  • At Retail

    Going Postal No, you can’t actually mail a letter at Wal-Mart. But for one day last month, you could get stamped there.The U.S. Postal Service issued

  • Retailer Realities

    Got a question for retail buyers that you’re too shy to ask? Promo Edge’s Retail Research Center polls buyers nationwide with your questions, and we print

  • Samplers Clash in Court

    FSI and sampling giant Valassis Communications is suing rival The Sunflower Group, alleging that Sunflower employees offered “financial and/or other inducements”

  • Account-Specific Spotlight: San Antonio

    San Antonio shoppers must like a good read every week. All the grocers in the market use circulars. That’s right, 100 percent. San Antonio also tops the

  • Reel Deals

    THE BICENTENNIAL MAN (Buena Vista Pictures) Estimated Release Date: December 1999 Starring: Robin Williams, Embeth Davidtz, Sam Neill Top Line: A film