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March 2009

Trans World’s Bob Higgins to Receive NARM Award

ShareThe National Association of Recording Merchandisers will honor Bob Higgins, CEO of Trans World Entertainment. The award will be given at the association’s annual convention, held June 7 – 10 in San Diego, CA. (Please note San Diego as your favorite packaging blogger’s home town.) “I am delighted to honor Bob with our Presidential Award, [...]

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16 March 2009

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Advertising Is Dead, Long Live Packaging!

ShareThe Dieline’s Ted Mininni explains the importance of packaging in standing out to consumers. Stand in the aisle of any major supermarket or mass retailer in America and notice in numerous product categories, many brands are indistinguishable from each other. If your brand looks like the rest of the product brands in the category, an [...]

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16 March 2009

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Employees Let Go At Red Eye Distribution

Share There are tough times right now as Red Eye Distribution announced the layoff of four employees. The purpose of the move is to combine Red Eye’s strategic marketing department with their traditional marketing unit, hypebot reports from a letter by Red Eye general manager Steve Dixon. The combined team will be responsible for physical [...]

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16 March 2009

Chris Bauer Chris Bauer

Trans World’s F.Y.E. Sales Down 24%

ShareDue in part to fewer stores open, FYE’s sales dropped by 24% to $344.7 million in Q4 2008. Same store sales over that same time period dropped only 14%. The rest of the drop was likely a result of 159 fewer stores open. Trans World and FYE are looking at other markets to make up [...]

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16 March 2009

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Universal to Distribute Disney in Australia

ShareThis one goes out to the legions of Hannah Montana, Jonas Brothers, and High School Musical fans reading Let Me See Your Package. Univeral has reached an agreement with Disney to distribute their products in Australia beginning April 1st. UMG To Distribute Disney Down Under

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10 March 2009

Chris Bauer Chris Bauer

Prince, Target Stores Team Up For Exclusive Deal And Weird Spelling

Share Prince and Target Stores announced a deal to allow the retail chain exclusive rights to sell Prince’s new three disc set. The collection includes studio albums “LOtUSFLOW3R” and “MPLSoUND”, and features a third disc “Elixer” from Prince’s newest protege Bria Valente. All 3 sell together for $11.98, a price point likely attractive to Target [...]

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6 March 2009

Chris Bauer Chris Bauer