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Saturday, December 9, 2006

Roller chains - Retail chains unleash new marketing plans

Economic Times - KOLKATA: With competition hotting up, Indian retail chains are beefing up their marketing activities to recharge their brands. Retailers like Pantaloons, Ebony, Shopper s Stop and Trent plan to step up marketing spends to stave off threats from
MSNBC - Yum Brands Inc., which operates Taco Bell and other restaurant chains, fell $1.36, or 2.2 percent, to $59.72 amid growing concern about an outbreak of E. coli in some of its restaurants. A Wachovia analyst lowered his rating on the company to "Market
San Jose Mercury News - After last year's store boycotts launched by conservative religious groups angered by the secularization of the holidays, the number of national chains that are now using Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa in their ads and store displays, as well as on
Philadelphia Daily News - In this story, there are no Christmas ghosts with rattling chains. No frightening visions of the future. But like Scrooge, the banker said he learned some lessons. He said he learned it's important to slow down and pay attention to others and their
Big Bear Grizzly - A message to the Big Bear newcomer, chain control works. Those words are echoed by the California Highway Patrol and Caltrans. Chains mounted on tires are often a sign of winter in California s mountain areas, but in Southern California chains are
MSN MoneyCentral - TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - OSI Restaurant Partners Inc., operator of Outback Steakhouse and other restaurant chains, said Friday it named Curt Glowacki to president of the Outback Steakhouse brand. Glowacki was most recently president and chief executive
Forbes - After an in-depth examination of the top-performing pizza chains in the United States, we believe Papa John's is this year's all-around top chain," said Steve Coomes, senior editor of PizzaMarketplace.com. "Not only has Papa John's put together two
Athens Daily Review - Dwayne Garner has been toting the chains on Brownsboro sidelines for 31 years, but he s never experienced anything quite like this. Garner will be on the sidelines during tonight s Region II-AAA championship game between the Brownsboro Bears and
Orlando Sentinel - We hope that we will set the standard for the industry and that other hotel chains will follow suit," Loews spokeswoman Emily Goldfischer said. "We are committed to giving our guests the best foods available." The announcement comes three days after