Sales Growth Slows at Tesco
Sales growth slowed at Tesco, the largest U.K. supermarket chain. Same-store sales rose 3.5 percent in the quarter, excluding gasoline revenue.
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Sales growth slowed at Tesco, the largest U.K. supermarket chain. Same-store sales rose 3.5 percent in the quarter, excluding gasoline revenue.
Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report have been added to NBCU’s Hulu website, with full episodes as well as clips becoming available.
Wisconsin has joined Colorado, Florida, Tennessee and Oklahoma in adding cell phone numbers to its telemarketing do-not-call list.
A new study has found, likely to nobody’s surprise, that sales go up for artists whose music is played on the radio.
After 18 consecutive quarters of positive results, the direct marketing community - direct marketers, agencies, and suppliers - experienced a revenue dip in the first quarter of 2008, according to the Quarterly Business Review (QBR) by the Direct Marketing Association (DMA), reports MarketingCharts.
Per person, kids consumed more video streams than those over 18 and spent more time watching online video from home in April, according to (pdf) Nielsen Online: Kids 2-11 viewed 51 streams and 118 minutes per person; teens 12-17 viewed 74 streams and 132 minute, MarketingCharts writes.
As expected, David Verklin has turned out as the head of the cable industry’s effort to sell targeted ads across six cable systems.
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The Los Angeles Times is once again at the center of a heated debate about the future of newsrooms and their products. The New York Times reported this morning that the L.A. Times has made plans to transfer control of its monthly magazine to its business operations, effectively wresting control of the product out of the hands of its editors.
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NBCU has hired a product placement company to help it find partners for upcoming television shows.
The five broadcast networks (including the CW) dodged a bullet and managed to pull in $9.23 billion in this year’s upfront, 1.2 percent higher than last year’s $9.12 billion.
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Starbucks has launched its first rewards program - one that gives consumers two hours of free Wi-Fi, select complimentary syrup, free coffee with the purchase of a pound of whole-bean coffee, and free coffee refills.
