BUSINESS BRIEFS

Compiled by Kate Zimmerman

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Hooking marlin

A North Vancouver communica-
tions business has hooked Thomas
Cook/Marlin Travel at least tem-
porarily on a storefront computer
program designed to lure customers
into stores,

Barry O'Hara of O'Hara
Communications is hoping his ser-
vice, currently playing in the win-
dows of the company's Park Royal
Mall and Richmond stores, will
catch on. ICs a computer program
designed specifically for the travel
company and the vacations it is cur-
rently promoting.

The people at Marlin give
O'Hara the details and he designs a
visually arresting ad ona disk, with
live action video images, still
images, graphics and text anima-
tion. It slips into a computer in the
window of the store and plays 24
hours a day.

“TY find that it catches people's
attention — the movement, the pic-
tures,” said Shamin Shariff, the
manager of Thomas Cook/Martin,
“It certainly has stopped people as
they come down. They stop and
stare and look at it.”

It was too carly for Shariff to say
whether the program would attract
customers into the store. She felt it
would have a greater effect if a staff
member were to offer brochures to
everyone who stops and looks at the
computer screen.

Firm turns page

Vancouver's oldest book bind-
ing company has turned a page in
its history. Founder and president
Bud Blaine, who established the
business in 1952, has sold it to
West Vancouver resident Kerr Bell.

Bell, who brings over 20 years

STARK

KERR BELL

industry experience to the new job,
will maintain the company’s opera-
tions in its current 2344 Yukon St.
location and retain the existing staff
of 24, The business is one of
Canada’s major providers of cus-
tom-designed viny! loose leaf infor-
mation systems.

Vancouver: Sin City?

‘the marketing of the Seven
Deadly Sins will take place
Tuesday, Mar. 15 when the British
Columbia Chapter of the American
Marketing Association (BCAMA)
presents the fifth event ina series of
six focusing on cutting edge mar-
keting developments at the Robson
Square Conterence Centre.

The BCAMA has invited eight
advertising agencies in Vancouver
to develop a campaign to market
one of the Deadly Sins — Lust,
Gluttony, Wrath, Envy. Pride.
Avarice or Sloth. Each agency will
receive 10 minutes to convince the
audience that their sin is the most
compelling.

Tickets for the presentation,
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d'oeuvres reception at 5:30 p.m.,
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Chamber miffed

The British Columbia Chamber
of Commerce has criticized the fed-
eral government’s decision to can-
cel the KAON project.

“T his sends a very negative mes-
sage,” said Dean Cooper, president
of the group, in a media release,
“Canada trails very badly the other
industrial countries in R & D, an
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The Chamber also criticized the
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