11.   While consumer-products companies cut other parts of promotional budgets, sampling programs abound.

12.   With venture capital funding disappearing and the stock market still unfriendly, many cash-strapped dot-coms have slashed their promotional budgets drastically.

13.   Most products advertised in Dewi, she said, were brand goods, many of which had closed down outlets or reduced promotional budgets.

14.   Vietnam Airlines, the only Vietnamese firm to have control over its annual promotional budget, is the first local firm to use a foreign advertising agency.