Ed Whitacre built Southwestern Bell into telcom behemoth AT&T. He helped close the deal to sell Anheuser-Busch to InBev. Can he also sell a Chevy?
Advertising Age reports that General Motors Corp. Chairman Ed Whitacre plans to make a personal pitch…
BY BRIAN STELTER
New York Times
The pitchman Billy Mays died last month, but on television he continues to hawk do-it-yourself home repair kits and yard tools day and night.
Mays’s mesmerizing infomercials — for products like Mighty Putty (”Build, restore, repair!”) and…
St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch Cos. on Friday morning released an annual report disclosing financial details. A couple of items caught our eye.
The country’s biggest brewer said its advertising costs totaled about $783 million in 2007, up from $771 million in 2006 but…
St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch Cos. grabbed the top spot in USA Today’s Super Bowl Ad Meter for a record tenth year in a row. The brewer’s Budweiser ad featuring a Dalmatian training a Clydesdale to make the beer wagon team was the…
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