Chief Marketer Staff

• New York Passes Law Allowing Direct Shipment of Wine

  New York State has passed a law allowing direct interstate shipment of wine into the state, following a May U.S. Supreme Court ruling which struck down a law that barring out-of-state wine shipments

• CGI to Acquire Babytobee.com

  CGI Holding Corp. has announced plans to merge with Morex Marketing Group, LLC, the parent company of Babytobee.com

• Michigan AG Warns of Telemarketing Scam

  Attorney General Mike Cox warned consumers on Thursday about telemarketers targeting residents by offering Wal- Mart vouchers as part of a fraud scheme

• Bluefly Selects McCaffery Ratner Gottlieb & Lane

  Online retailer Bluefly Inc. has selected New York’s McCaffery Ratner Gottlieb & Lane as its advertising agency-of-record for a multi-media campaign scheduled to break in the fourth quarter

• Gay Coupon Magazine to Debut in Florida

  Hunter Publications is introducing It’s About Pride, a publication it calls the “first coupon magazine on and for the gay community.”

• Rey joins Draft Chicago as Cross-Cultural VP

  Draft Chicago has hired Walkyria “Wally” Rey as vice president, director of cross-cultural marketing

• Fuson and Metviner to Keynote DMA B-to-B Conference

  Scott Fuson and Neil Metviner will be the featured keynote speakers at the DMA Business-to-Business Marketing Conference, Sept. 13-15

• Short Cuts

  List firm DM2 has launched a newly redesigned Web site

• List and Database News

  Craftmatic Master File –Lifelines This file contains nearly 1.5 million last-12-month buyers. The sources are direct mail and TV. Selections: Gender, multi-responders, religious/ethnic, source, state/SCF/ZIP Price: $65/M Contact: Direct Media Inc., …

• History Channel Preps Pizzeria Promo

  The History Channel is visiting pizzerias nationally to drive tune-in for its new show Rome: Engineering an Empire. The cable channel, owned by A&E Networks, taps up to 3,500 independent pizza restaurants for a $500,000 campaign centered on a sweeps …