| GoQuo opens new US offices
Online and dynamic packaging technology specialist GoQuo is now offering its solutions direct to the North American travel marketplace. Building on its existing US customer base (Flights.com, Shakiba Travel and Options Travel.com), GoQuo has opened a sales and marketing office in New York, with customer support provided from its Silicon Valley office in Santa Clara, California. GoQuo, established in 2004 and winner of a prestigious 2006 World Travel Market technology award in the Dynamic Packaging Tools Online category, now has over 70 customers worldwide in the travel agency, air consolidator and tour operator markets. It will offer its GQDynamic, GQAgent, GQConsol and AirlineDP solutions, as well as GQHotel, GQMailer and GQGate products. The company will soon launch its latest solution designed specifically for tour operators, and will shortly announce its latest win in Canada.
The Sears Wish Book Catalog Inspires its Holiday Marketing Campaign
HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill., Nov. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Millions of Americans remember the Sears Wish Book catalog with excitement -- and the hours they spent poring over each page, circling the gifts they wanted both to give and to receive during the holidays. Now, this year's return of the historic catalog has inspired Sears' new holiday marketing campaign, which launched November 4. Led by the tagline "Don't just give a gift, grant a wish," the integrated marketing campaign features an expanded, more diversified, multicultural media mix, including national television and radio spots, magazine insertions for jewelry and tools, and increased online media, plus new sears.com functionality, Wishing Hours sales promotions and sweepstakes, direct mail, circular, public relations and, of course, catalogs.
Civil Affairs in Israel, Public Relations Image Challenge
Politicians started following the leads of marketing firms and hiring PR consultants to help them dress, speak and convey their message - or image - and reach their target audiences. Politicians in Israel have only begun to take such strategies seriously in recent years, holding on strongly to traditional, informal ways. Golda Meir used to smoke cigarettes while being interviewed on TV. And years later in 1993, When Teddy Kollek ran for mayoral reelection in Jerusalem, he hired a very young and recent army press-corps graduate as his PR director, and a lay art staff to design his posters, many of which were made by hand. He also smoked cigars publicly. Israeli candidates for prime minister started hiring American consultants as far back as 1977, but it wasn't until the 1999 elections, when Binyamin Netanyahu hired Arthur Finkelstein and Ehud Barak brought in James Carville, Stanley Greenberg and Bob Shrum, that top American consultants totally revamped the Israeli electioneering process to follow American marketing strategies.
Bonnie Donny, The Isle o' Lewis Is Pining for Ye
The New York real-estate mogul has been touting his Scottish ancestry in a bid to build a $2.5 billion luxury golf resort near Aberdeen, about 270 miles southeast of here. There, a local council committee and some residents have spurned his advances, unimpressed by his claim that he felt like "kissing the earth" in the land where his mother, Mary Macleod, was born. But here, in Ms. Macleod's actual birthplace, locals say he'd be more than welcome. People "are always asking me when he's coming," says William Murray, whose mother was Mary's niece. "I say, 'I don't know. Your guess is as good as mine.'" The Macleod family has deep roots in Lewis. Mary Macleod was born here in Tong, now a village of about 500, in 1912, one of six children of a fisherman and his wife. Macleod remains a common last name: 116 of the 1,800 residents who work for the Lewis town council are Macleods.
USC guard shows serious dedication
He never had to sell any of his trophy's to send a family member to college.) You can say this about Red he was very loyal to under paid players. Plus the did it in the same place. How incredibly more difficult was it for Phil to do it in two different towns with no control over money and/or roosters. It's no contest! Thanks, but no thanks. I'll stick with Phil.
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— Jim, Andover, Mass. In my opinion, Red is the better coach for precisely the reasons you favor Wooden. It is true that Wooden had to deal with college students and making them the best. But college students pick the school, and when Wooden was winning his titles, the best in the country wanted to play for him. With professionals, they can be lured away with money. In addition, given most, if not all contracts in the NBA when Red was coaching were one year, it became more important to keep the players happy.
Earns Preview: Biotech Sector
Meanwhile, Wall Street remains concerned over Genentech Inc.'s growth prospects, with sales of its cancer drug Avastin slowing down. The company is staking a large part of its future growth on expanded approval for Avastin in breast cancer, though that is unlikely to occur given a recent Food and Drug Administration review panel's narrow recommendation against the new use. Also, Genentech is among several larger biotech companies finding it harder to increase revenue as the company itself becomes bigger and more mature. "Large-cap biotechs are more or less stuck in maturing product growth cycles resembling pharmaceutical companies rather than innovative research and development enterprises," said Wachovia Securities analyst George Farmer, in a note to investors Jan. 8. Meanwhile, medium-sized biotech companies have more room for continued growth, several analysts say.
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