The burger blues: food poisoning has suppliers worried <b>By Kathy Tyre</b><br clear="none"/><br clear="none"/>Concern about the Jack In The Box-Vons food poisoning crisis i s running so high among a variety of meat suppliers that not only fastfood compan
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A month after the Jack In The Box incident, which killed two people and left hundreds of others with food poisoning from contaminated meat supplied by Vons, businesses have reason [...]
HIGH-TECH TREK: Western Shops to Talk With Microsoft About Its $22-Mil. Account <b>By Kathy Tyre</b><br clear="none"/><br clear="none"/>Software giant Microsoft has agreed to meet with several West Coast agencies interested in pitching its estimated $22-m
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The company may be examining all of its marketing relationships as it seeks to manage its rapid growth and tame its renegade image. There are also reports of upheaval in [...]
L.A. Top Political Ad Market
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LOS ANGELES – With $19.2 million in political advertising volume on local TV stations, L.A. was the leading political ad spending market in the country in 1992, according to the [...]
Headlands Goes to Heartland For Blue Cross Campaign
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SAN FRANCISCO – Last year S.F. startup Headlands Communications went up against Chicago’s J. Walter Thompson and Foote, Cone & Belding to win the $5-million Blue Cross of Illinois account. [...]
SW Bell Yellow Pages Hits Right Note: Ketchum Campaign Puts the Word ‘SWBYPS’ on Everyone’s Lips
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SAN FRANCISCO – When the operators at St. Louis-based Southwestern Bell Yellow Pages asked if the Hoping to sidestep the competition, which has proliferated in recent years, Ketchum decided to [...]
GMO Corrals Black Angus Restaurants
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SAN FRANCISCO – An on-again, off-again review that began in L.A. and moved to S.F. ended last week when Stuart Anderson’s Black Angus and Cattle Company Restaurants awarded the creative [...]