Sears terminates contract to carry Benetton USA merchandise in 400 of its stores after victims' rights groups picket a Houston Sears store and Benetton's offices in New
York. The protestors were reacting to Benetton's recent ads featuring death row inmates, saying the affiliation hurt Sears' credibility as an "All-American store."
Tech company TurboLinux flies a stunt sandwich around Bill Gates' San Francisco keynote address announcing the launch of Windows 2000. A helicopter towing the world's largest
air banner (immediately before and after Gates' keynote) offers "free upgrades to TurboLinux Workstation 6.0 with proof of purchase of Microsoft Windows 2000 until March 31...or
until your Windows system crashes."
Revlon senior VP of corporate communications Allyn Seidman leaves after 11 years to handle consulting assignments for select clients, a company announcement says.
Debra Sanchez Fair is promoted to VP, corporate communications at Nissan North America. She replaces Jason Vines, who last week jumped to the VP communications spot at Ford
Motor Co.
CanadaNewsWire forges agreement with Yahoo to offer Webcasting services in Canadian markets.
Reputation watchdogs at tobacco companies pressure anti-smoking group to pull two ads from a campaign airing on network and cable channels. One spot depicted body bags
piling up outside Philip Morris headquarters.
