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Strategies & Market Trends : BFT: Will the tulip craze ever break down? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: S Shaw who wrote (337)4/17/1998 6:35:00 PM
From: Pancho Villa  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 650
 
I went to the times and searched their data base. The only piece of interesting info was a January article on BFT selecting McCann-Erickson as their ad agency. IMO not a bad pick. Has anyone seen TV commercials? this morning a caught a tiny bit of one but couldn't make anything out of it.

January 15, 1998, Thursday
THE MEDIA BUSINESS: ADVERTISING -- ADDENDA; Bally Total Fitness To McCann-Erickson
The Bally Total Fitness Corporation in Chicago said yesterday that it had named McCann-Erickson Los Angeles to handle the creative portion of its television advertising account, with billings estimated at $30 million to $35 million. Those duties had ...

Section: Business/Financial Desk
106 words
By Dana Canedy Another interesting one:

Article 4
June 8, 1997, Sunday
Surfing for Satisfaction: Consumer Complaints Go on Line
CATHERINE STANTON is an ordinary consumer, but when she logs on to the Internet her product complaints have power that rivals Ralph Nader's. She discovered that power last October when a $10 late fee charged her by a Blockbuster video store was refer ...

Section: Money and Business/Financial Desk
1927 words
By ROY FURCHGOTT