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Analyst Calls: AKAM, CIEN, CMG, CRM, FDO, GOOG, JNPR, MCC, TXN, YHOO ...

Posted Mar 2nd 2011 11:20AM by Eric Buscemi (RSS feed)
Filed under: Analyst Reports, Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades, Google (GOOG), Yahoo! (YHOO), Ciena Corp (CIEN), Chipotle Mexican Grill'A' (CMG), Family Dollar Stores (FDO), Texas Instruments (TXN), Analyst Initiations, Akamai Technologies (AKAM), Juniper Networks (JNPR), salesforce.com inc (CRM)

Analyst Upgrades

SINA (SINA) to overweight from neutral at Piper Jaffray.
Texas Instruments (TXN), ON Semiconductor (ONNN), Xilinx (XLNX) and Valassis (VCI) to overweight from neutral at JPMorgan.
Salesforce.com (CRM) to buy from hold at Canaccord.
Peet's Coffee (PEET) to buy from neutral at Janney Capital.
Invesco Mortgage (IVR) to overweight from equal weight at Barclays.
BTU International (BTUI) to buy from hold at Wunderlich.
Coca-Cola Femsa (KOF) to overweight from neutral at HSBC.
Chipotle (CMG) to market perform from underperform at Morgan Keegan.

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This week in Advertising Age - bypassing the airport screeners

Posted Sep 17th 2007 5:30PM by Tom Barlow (RSS feed)
Filed under: Television, Magazines, Marketing and Advertising, Toyota Motor Corp. (TM), Procter and Gamble (PG), Small Business

Clear, the FAA-approved E-Z pass-like program for air travelers that allows them to bypass the screening and feel-up process, is preparing to launch its first marketing campaign.

Procter & Gamble (NYSE:PG) has assembled a sketch-comedy cast to prep a pilot for a television show that will promote its products. If it works, the advertainment could be picked up by a cable network.

Honda (NYSE:HMC) is hot to move beyond its dominance of boomer buyers to reach Gen-Xers. The median age of Accord buyers is 54, and the company hopes to pull in a younger skew for the redesigned Accord. Watch the ads for more flash and contemporary music.

The Admarket index of the top 50 marketer, media and agency companies is down 4.3% from its 52-week high. Biggest losers are Valassis (NYSE:VCI) (-54%), McClatchy Co. (NYSE:MNI) (-49.9%) and ValueClick (NASDAQ:VCLK) (-41.3%).

Toyota (NYSE:TM) is leveraging its heightened NASCAR involvement (Joe Gibbs' team- he'll get 'er done!) with a new ad campaign. The company hopes to convince this country's car buyers that Toyota is an American brand.