[Financial Services] Charles Schwab Corp. expects to stay the course in 2007 with its asset-building "Talk to Chuck" campaign while revamping its online presence. ...Read the whole story

[Packaged Goods] Procter & Gamble is making quiet inroads to prestige cosmetics, and is likely to try an acquisition of a luxury brand marketer such as Estee Lauder or Clarins, suggests a Citigroup analyst. ...Read the whole story

[Research] Americans spent $159.5 billion to improve and repair their homes last year, and are staying put longer. That's just one of the findings from thousands of statistics inside the U.S. Census Bureau's latest "Statistical Abstract of the U.S." ...Read the whole story

[Beverages] Heading into the home stretch to Christmas--a slow-ho-ho news week--White Rock issued a challenge to Coke's claim that it was the first to put Santa into advertising. ...Read the whole story

[Restaurants] Americans are slowing down a little and doing less on-the-go eating in their cars. That's just one trend spotted by the National Restaurant Association. ...Read the whole story

[Beverages] In what SAB Miller says is the first move by an international brewer into the region, the company's joint venture in China is buying brewing operations in Inner Mongolia. ...Read the whole story

How do you establish a healthy balance of emerging and traditional media?A vice president of product marketing at Marketing Management Analytics suggests how. ... ...More