Chief Marketer Staff

• Missouri Shuts Down Travel Marketer

  Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon has obtained a court order that prohibits Star Reservations LLC from advertising or otherwise offering to sell vacation travel packages, vacation club memberships, hotel lodgings or timeshare real estate.

• Short Cuts

  Belardi/Ostroy ALC and I-Centrix will jointly host a summit for high-level catalog and retail marketing executives on Feb. 6 and 7 in San Francisco. Contact Belardi/Ostroy, Lisa Valladares, 212-381-1722.

• Loose Cannon Will Return Jan. 2

  The Loose Cannon column will not appear this week or next, as its author is volunteering to help with the less fortunate, namely the severely overworked call center staff who at this time of the year are often thought to have the capabilities of …

• Listline e-Newsletter 12/17/07

  Lake Group Media Inc. has been appointed to manage the Hudson Valley
  Magazine file for Suburban Publishing Inc.

• Agencies

  HarperCollins, Coffee Co. Team for Packaging Deal

  Just in time for the holidays, HarperCollins has teamed up with Leaves-N-Beans Roasting Co. in a packaging deal to promote paperback books with bags of coffee.

• Talbots Taps Cohen for Chief Merchandising Officer

  Talbots has named Basha Cohen as executive vice president and chief merchandising officer for the brand.

• Grand Central Marketing Names VP, Hires Others

  Grand Central Marketing has promoted Jennifer Guillette to vice president.

• Social

  TRUSTe to Certify Facebook’s Privacy Policies

  Social network Facebook, still recovering from the November launch of a controversial policy for tracking users’ off-site behavior, has partnered with privacy certification company TRUSTe on disclosure language for that program.

• Trail Blazers Soliciting Arena Sponsor

  The Portland Trail Blazers are seeking a local corporate sponsor to buy long-term naming rights to the team’s Rose Garden arena.

• News Brief

  HILL’S PET NUTRITION: is out with a cause marketing campaign designed to help homeless cats and dogs for the holiday season.