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Earlier this month, Source Interlink Companies, Inc., in a memo, announced that Meijer grocery stores, during May and June, will be relocating the magazine and book departments to the front of more than 50 stores. The following describes the planned changes.

May 19, 2008 - Today, Patrick Calves and Kristen Whitney join CMG’s Associated Client Services Department as marketing coordinators, reporting to Todd Lundgren and Bruce Thompson, respectively.  In this role, Calves and Whitney will be responsible for assisting marketing directors and marketing managers in preparing assignments and title production schedules, developing business presentations, and updating client information and materials.

Effective today, Christine Trinidad has been promoted to associate marketing manager, in recognition of her exceptional work as marketing coordinator since joining CMG in 2007. With this promotion, Trinidad will be joining CMG’s Hearst Client Services group, where she ...

Kimberly Proud, New Addition to CMG's Category Management Group April 7, 2008 -- Kimberly Proud joined CMG's category management group, on March 31, as a senior category analyst, reporting to Kevin Packard, the group's manager. Proud will work out of CMG's Bentonville, AR, office and serve as a key business contact on Wal-Mart's category advisor team. Her primary responsibility will be to develop objective sales analyses in support of various Wal-Mart specific initiatives.

March 7, 2008 – Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., has implemented a new process for seeking authorizations, requesting cover price changes and making other Item file modifications (such as to Bipads and UPC codes). The retailer contracted Source Interlink to manage its ...

February 26, 2008 — The attached Core and SubCore title lists are being utilized in the development of Wal-Mart’s new mainline program, and are guidelines for wholesalers to use when developing new Wal-Mart mainline planograms. The Core list includes mainline ...

CMG's suite of reports based on ABC Fas-Fax circulation data for the second half of 2007 – released today – is now available through EDGE. All reports are available in PDF format, ready-to-print, and can be easily downloaded to your ...

In a Tuesday, January 22, 2008, memo from CVS Category Manager, Gary Marcotte, CVS has indicated its intention to improve sell thru efficiency to 45% on all titles by April 1, 2008. Below, please find the distributed ...

January 3, 2008 — CMG has completed the audit of its Internal Controls for 2007 in accordance with Statement of Auditing Standards No. 70 (SAS 70), and wishes to advise publishers that a formal Report detailing CMG's Internal ...