George Lazarus

Ad agency giants sometimes tout their initials a la corporate America, hoping such names will impress big business. Then there are mergers, when it is expedient to create a combination...

Now that ad agency-parent Lois USA has filed for a corporate bankruptcy in New York, the future of its Lois/EJL Chicago unit looks downright bleak. In fact, agency insiders look...

Surprise, surprise, a butter-toffee Cracker Jack is around the corner--its maker, Frito-Lay, hopes to nibble away at the ready-to-eat caramel popcorn category. Cracker Jack for years has produced a caramel-coated...

For Chicago Bulls fans who haven't met or seen Benny the Bull, he pops up, albeit in a fleeting film clip, in a new Peoples Energy Corp. TV campaign breaking...

Whatever confusion existed over the magazine titles Fast Company and Your Company should be about over. Beginning with its November issue, Your Company becomes FSB, aka Fortune Small Business, with...

Acquisitions of media-management firms have proliferated in recent months, and the next big deal may involve Botway Group, a leading independent based in Manhattan. Sources say publicly held Interpublic Group...

Another prominent automaker-- Cadillac--is going to have its name emblazoned on the bright lights of the emerging theater district on West Randolph Street. The Palace Theatre at 151 W. Randolph...

Chuck Templeton has worked in the restaurant business as a waiter, bus boy, bartender and waitstaff manager. Now he's stepped out on his own in the restaurant biz with a...

The disclosure that Coca-Cola Co. soon will put a new label on its decades-old contour bottle shouldn't produce the negative consumer response received when it trotted out New Coke in...

J. Walter Thompson USA Chicago will soon find out if there's real dough in pizza. JWT Chicago, in tandem with its sister office in Detroit, and Deutsch Inc. in New...