Aspen will loan $400K to ACRA for marketing Carolyn Sackariason The Aspen Times Aspen, CO Colorado ASPEN - The Aspen City Council agreed Monday to loan the chamber of commerce $400,000 and issue $100,000 as a grant toward a beefed-up marketing plan for 2010. The council supported the pitch made by representatives from the Aspen Chamber Resort Association that increased marketing is crucial in a …

Legislation targets unethical, aggressive sales tactics that result in countless ‘mystery charges’ for consumers. A Senate probe focused on online marketing firms Affinion, Vertrue and Webloyalty. Linda Lindquist was in Atlanta, where she had taken her 19-year-old daughter for therapy after a skiing accident left her a quadriplegic, when she decided to treat the teenager to a movie.

The Traceability Interoperability Summit 2010 ( www.traceinterop.com ) today announced its keynote speaker–Douglas Bailey, chief information officer (CIO) for the Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Bailey will discuss the USDA’s efforts to support adoption of global traceability standards in meat and …

ORANGE, Calif., Nov. 17, 2009 — TK Carsites announced the appointment of James “JD” Rucker to Chief Marketing Officer. In this new position JD will merge dealer client marketing with TK Carsites’ own marketing efforts under a new “results-based” marketing initiative.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.– Veteran motorsport marketing firm Mackey Marketing Group, Inc. has signed on to represent the new Venue transformable mobile marketing, mobile hospitality and mobile entertainment vehicle to the motorsport industry.

More than 200 marketing executives rallied yesterday at the Securities and Exchange Commission to protest against plans by brokers to withhold commission revenues for up to six months, calling it an unfair labour practice.

The public interest groups have again warned the Health Ministry against any attempt to link marketing approval with patent status as being pushed by the multinational companies, saying that it would turn the drug regulator into India’s patent police.

CHICAGO, Nov. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — United States Cellular Corporation (NYSE: USM) today announced that it plans to appoint Edward C. Perez to vice president-marketing and sales operations, effective Jan. 1, 2010. Perez is currently senior director of U.S.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Nov. 17 /PRNewswire/ — MSC Care Management, a leader in providing medical products and services to the workers’ compensation industry has named Linda Lane as Senior Vice President over Sales and Marketing.

WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- Three marketing firms and hundreds of their online partners made more than $1.4 billion using misleading sales tactics, according to a report issued Tuesday by Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John D. Rockefeller IV (D., W.Va.).