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- News America Marketing Whistleblower: Clients Were Charged for Ads That Never Appeared
- News America Marketing may have charged its clients for ads that never appeared in supermarkets, according to a witness in the recently settled trial in which NAM was sued by rival in-store ad agency Floorgraphics Inc. During the trial, disgruntled former NAM account director Robert Emmel testified...
- Blog posts 2009-04-06
- News America Marketing Forces Whistleblower Into Bankruptcy
- Robert Emmel, the former News America Marketing account director who alleged in federal court that his old employer bilked its clients by taking payments for hundreds of ad placements that never occured, has filed for bankruptcy. The filing comes after News America won a summary judgment against...
- Blog posts 2009-04-27
- Valassis Accused of Using Hidden Identities in Online War With News America Marketing
- Has a Valassis executive been using a "sock puppet" a fake online identity to criticise News America Marketing? That's the claim of Joe the Coupon Guy, a blogger who writes about (you guessed it!) coupons. News America has retained a lawyer to see whether it can sue Valassis over the...
- Blog posts 2009-04-28
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- News America Marketing Group Buys Floorgraphics Just Hours After Settling Spying Lawsuit
- News America Marketing Group has agreed to buy Floorgraphics Inc., the company said. A deal price was not disclosed. The acquisition -- which consists primarily of FGI's client and supplier contracts and "other assets" -- comes immediately after the two companies agreed to settle their lawsuit in...
- Blog posts 2009-03-12
- Was N.Y. Post's Carlucci the Reason for News America Marketing's Settlement With Floorgraphics?
- One of the mysteries from the Floorgraphics v. News America Marketing trial is why the case settled after only a couple of days of testimony. One theory is that it had something to do with Paul Carlucci, the current publisher of The New York Post and still chairman and the...
- Blog posts 2009-04-03
- Valassis, Insignia Stock Jumps on News America Marketing Group Settlement
- Since News America Marketing Group bought Floorgraphics Inc. in what appeared to be a legal settlement of the corporate spying and sabotage litigation between them, the stock of two other direct marketing companies, Valassis and Insignia Systems, has gone through the roof. Valassis, which has a much...
- Blog posts 2009-03-19
- News America Marketing's Alleged Plans to Seize Safeway Account Outlined in Suit
- With News America Marketing's settlement/acquisition of Floorgraphics Inc. behind it, NAM can now turn its attention to all the other lawsuits against it. Specifically, NAM is being sued by Valassis, Theme Promotions, and Insignia Systems. Two of those cases are scheduled to come to trial later this year, possibly as...
- Blog posts 2009-03-31
- Trial: Did News America Marketing Group Break Into Floorgraphics' Computers?
- The eyes of the direct mail, in-store and coupon marketing world will be focused today on a trial which pits Floorgraphics Inc. a maker of those ads that appear on the floor of supermarkets against Rupert Murdoch's News America Marketing Group. The jury case opens at 10 a.m. in a...
- Blog posts 2009-03-02
- News America Marketing Group Settles With Floorgraphics; Valassis, Insignia Likely Rejoicing
- News America Marketing Group has settled the case against it from Floorgraphics Inc. before FGI finished presenting its case in court. As blogger Daniel Low points out: ... the timing â€" in the midst of trial after compelling testimony from Floorgraphics' first few witnesses -- suggests that it is...
- Blog posts 2009-03-11
- Valassis claims News America violates antitrust regulations.(News)(Valassis Communications Inc.)(News America Marketing)
- Byline: Tom Henderson Valassis Communications Inc. filed suit in federal court Wednesday alleging antitrust practices by its No. 1 rival, News America Marketing Group of New York City. The suit alleges that News America threatened to raise price Byline: Tom Henderson...
- Research articles 2006-01-23
- Artera Group Teams with News America Marketing to Deliver Coupons to RevTheWeb™ Subscribers; Free Web Accelerator Enhanced With Additional Money-Saving Offerings
- WESTPORT, Conn. -- Artera Group, Inc., a subsidiary of NCT Group, Inc. (OTCBB: NCTI), today announced a branded coupon portal for RevTheWebTM users. This offering is powered by the SmartSource Savings Network, the branded marketing vehicle of News America Marketing, a division of News Corporation (NYSE:NWS). News America Marketing is...
- Research articles 2005-09-12
- Insignia Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against News Corporation Its Subsidiary, News America Marketing, and Albertson's
- MINNEAPOLIS -- Insignia Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:ISIG) announced today it has sued News Corporation, LTD, ("News Corp."), News America Marketing In-Store, Inc. ("News America") and Albertson's Inc. ("Albertson's") in federal district court in Minneapolis, Minnesota, for violations of federal and state antitrust and false advertising laws.
- Research articles 2004-09-23
- News America Marketing and IRI Extend Relationship Through 2010
- IRI to Continue as Provider of Key Strategic and Marketplace Information NEW YORK & CHICAGO -- News America Marketing, the consumer advertising and promotional services division of News Corporation (NYSE:NWS), and Information Resources, Inc. IRI, the leading global provider of enterprise market information solutions for the consumer packaged goods...
- Research articles 2006-12-14
- News America Marketing Q2: Numbers Support Valassis' Monopoly Case
- News Corp.'s Q2 2009 results -- which contain Rupert Murdoch's accounts for News America Marketing Group -- seem to bear out Valassis' case that it is disadvantaged in the newspaper coupon business because its rival uses anti-competitive tactics to drive its share down. by Jim Edwards
- Blog posts 2009-08-06
- News America Marketing Group Wins Summary Judgment Against Whistleblower Robert Emmel
- A federal judge has awarded a summary judgment to News America Marketing Group in its case against a former account director who alerted federal authorities to the company's alleged anticompetitive practices. by Jim Edwards
- Blog posts 2009-03-16
- News America Marketing Sues Valassis Alleging Bogus Web Posts
- News America Marketing has sued Valassis over the latter's use of online "sock puppets" to make allegedly misleading posts on BringBacktheCoupons.com, a web site created to protest Valassis's withdrawal from the newspaper coupon business. by Jim Edwards
- Blog posts 2009-04-29
- UPDATED: News America Marketing's Acquisition of Floorgraphics Not Big Enough to Show Up in Q1 Numbers
- Observers of the acquisition/settlement between Rupert Murdoch's News America Marketing and Floorgraphics Inc. were left wondering how much NAM had paid for the upstart provider of floor ads in supermarkets. That was not revealed at the time of the settlement in March. by Jim Edwards
- Blog posts 2009-05-07
- News America Marketing's Carlucci Is Touchy About The Untouchables
- It doesn't matter what you say about News America Marketing -- that it's a monopoly, or that it rips off its clients, or that it subjects advertisers to needless price rises -- just don't accuse CEO Paul Carlucci of showing his staff that scene from The Untouchables. by Jim Edwards
- Blog posts 2009-08-05
- Insignia Wins Ruling v. News America; Stage Set for Another Antitrust Trial in POP Biz
- Insignia Systems won a ruling in Minnesota federal court paving the way for a full-blown trial on its claims that News America Marketing engaged in unlawful monopoly tactics to deprive it of customers. The issues at stake are largely similar to those in a Michigan state court case in which...
- Blog posts 2009-10-01
- Valassis Suit vs. News America Being Conducted in Secrecy
- It is not news that Valassis's price-fixing lawsuit against rival News America Marketing Group is costing Valassis millions of dollars. But what evidence does the company have against News America? That question is currently unanswered because Valassis and News America are conducting their litigation under a blanket...
- Blog posts 2009-02-20
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