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Is Deal Chicken too slow to the gate?

Rick Outzen August 25, 2011

The News Journal is about to unveil the latest Gannett project – Deal Chicken – which is targeted to compete with Groupon, Val-Pak and other coupon programs. The Gannett Blog believes that the online coupon market maybe declining.

As Gannett pushes forward with its later-to-the game online coupon site DealChicken, brokerage Wedbush Securities notes that industry leader Groupon’s second-quarter revenue growth slowed dramatically, spurring a 20% plunge in the company’s value.

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Author: Rick Outzen

Rick Outzen is the publisher/owner of Pensacola Inweekly. He has been profiled in The New York Times and featured in several True Crime documentaries. Rick also is the author of the award-winning Walker Holmes thrillers. His latest nonfiction book is “Right Idea, Right Time: The Fight for Pensacola’s Maritime Park.”