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- Valassis' Plan to End Newspaper Coupons Outrages Middle America
- Valassis CEO Alan Schultz told investors recently that "we are hearing some consumer grumbling" about his company pulling its Red Plum coupons out of local newspapers in favor of sending them via the U.S. Postal Service or making them available online at RedPlum.com. But it's more than...
- Blog posts 2009-02-24
- Valassis: Layoffs Will Continue as It Reduces Newspaper Coupon Business; It's All News America's Fault
- Valassis executives told Wall Street analysts that they intend to continue laying people off in order to reduce their operating costs. The company made a loss of $222 million in Q4 2008. In addition, the company explained why it was closing down its coupon operations with many...
- Blog posts 2009-02-19
- Valassis takes a clipping; but analysts expect '97 to be a cut above. (Valassis Communications Inc.'s coupon distribution)
- Consumer-product coupon distribution fell 6 percent in 1996 from 1995 levels. But analysts still expect good things this year from the nation's No. 1 printer of Sunday newspaper-coupon inserts, Livonia's Valassis Communications Inc., which published iConsumer-product coupon distribution fell 6 percent in 1996 from 1995 ...
- Research articles 1997-02-03
- 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
- Valassis to Stick With "Majority" of Newspapers; Settles Fraser Billing Dispute
- Brian Costello, general manager of Valassis' RedPlum network, gave a little more detail on on whether Valassis will pull more coupons from newspapers this year in favor of shared mail and online downloads. "It's not the majority" of newspapers, he told the Pontiflex CPL Summit in New...
- Blog posts 2009-03-27
- 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
- Where to Find the Bright Spots in 2009
- NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- The worst November-December retail season since 1970; taxpayer bailouts to save Detroit; marketing budgets slashed; tens of thousands laid off across agencies, media companies and marketing departments; and still more cuts coming every day. You've read the bad news, and no one's denying that it's grim,...
- News items 2009-08-07
- T.G.I. Fridays, P&G tie-in continues with coupons; TV supports in-restaurant tie for new produce rinse.(Brief Article)
- Procter & Gamble Co. continues the tie-in between its Fit produce rinse and T.G.I. Friday's with a newspaper coupon Sept. 1. Procter & Gamble Co. continues the tie-in between its Fit produce rinse and T.G.I. Friday's with a newspaper coupon Sept. 1.
- Research articles 2000-08-21
- 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
- 450 Jobs at Stake in Valassis Trial; Is This All CEO Schultz's Fault?
- Valassis CFO Robert Recchia testified that 450 jobs are on the line at his company if it does not win its anti-competition trial against News America Marketing. Since 2001, Valassis has lost so much newspaper coupon business that if News America is allowed to continue to use its alleged monopoly...
- Blog posts 2009-06-24
- Valassis' Brown Says She Used Same Monopoly Tactics as News America
- Suzanne Brown, the chief marketing officer at newspaper coupon agency Valassis, told a Michigan state court that the agency told the SEC that Valassis' corporate strategy was to obtain increased market share using the same tactics as its rival, News America Marketing. The admission was potentially important because Valassis is...
- Blog posts 2009-07-20
- Sunday coupon sections: a new source for subs? - Sullivan Media offers magazine subscription discount coupons in Sunday newspaper advertising inserts - Brief Article
- Value-conscious shoppers carefully clip coupons from Sunday papers, so what better place to offer multiple coupons for magazines? For three years now, Sullivan Media, a subsidiary of Sullivan Communications, has tested this bargain-hunter environment for its Magazine Value Center. It runs pages and spreads in free-standing inserts FSIs, with a...
- Research articles 1996-03-15
- 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
- News America Exec Testifies Unilever, Conagra and Kraft Got Higher Prices for Not Taking Bundled Ad Deals
- News America Marketing vp/business operations Tom Leprine testified that companies who did not accept its bundled deals on in-store supermarket ads and newspaper coupons got higher prices. The testimony came in a Michigan state court trial in which newspaper coupon agency Valassis accuses News America of using its supermarket ad...
- Blog posts 2009-06-16
- Valassis Stock Threatened With De-listing by NYSE
- The New York Stock Exchange has threatened to de-list Valassis stock if it does not present a business plan that convinces the exchange that the company can meet certain minimum standards in 18 months. The company said in a statement: Upon receipt of our business plan, the NYSE has...
- Blog posts 2009-02-25
- Valassis May Not Be Able to Pay Debt; Litigation May "Materially Harm" the Company
- Valassis may not be able to meet its debt obligations and its litigation against News America Marketing Group may "materially harm" the company, according to a filing with the SEC. The worst-case scenario? "Bankruptcy or liquidation," the company says. The disclosure, in a 10-K filed on a...
- Blog posts 2009-03-06
- 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 CEO Got Big Raise Despite Company's Losses
- Valassis CEO Alan Schultz had an awful 2008: Sure, revenues went up 6.2 percent but the company lost $207 million overall, NYSE threatened to delist the company (it's trading just above the penny-stock range), and the high-stakes litigation against rival News America Marketing Group has decimated the company's profits. He...
- Blog posts 2009-03-18
- 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
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