pitch man

Its other overseas acquisitions haven't been smooth sailing, and this looks just as tough--despite the company's name-brand pitchman.

Jobs' technical brilliance was equalled only by his consumate skill as a salesman and pitchman.

Consumer capitalism has pressed the snowman into service as a pitchman for everything from anti-dandruff shampoo to laxatives to tampons.

Mr. Yao works as a pitchman for a half-dozen Chinese companies, most of which trade on the nationalistic pride he inspires.

He's the great pitchman who starred in commercials for cleaning products, and he died Sunday.

By the time Prohibition ended in 1933, the snowman had become the pitchman for almost every leading liquor company.

His rock-star mane and six-pack abs have helped cast him as a pitchman for Amway and Bausch & Lomb.

So what makes the Twilight star such an irresistible pitchman (besides his pecs)?

Television product pitchman Billy Mays is being remembered as a pop culture icon.

Television product pitchman Billy May is being remembered as a pop culture icon.

But this time around Coca-Cola is standing by its pitchman, saying it's a private matter between the striker and his family.

Florida police say TV pitchman Billy Mays has died in his Tampa home.

Pioneering TV journalist and Timex watch pitchman John Cameron Swayze died in Sarasota, Florida, at age 89.

This little grill took off slowly, but with George as the pitchman, it soon became a household name.

On the horizon: a seniors program with Marino's old Miami Dolphins coach, Don Shula, as pitchman.

In some ways, Mr. Paulson isn't the ideal pitchman.

In the intervening time he has become a ubiquitous pitchman in China and the face of the 2008 Games.

He is the chief pitchman for GM.

California couldn't have a better pitchman in China than Mr. Yao.