Chief Marketer Staff

• Concepts Direct to Sell Four Catalogs

  Concepts Direct Inc., Longmont, CO, will sell its Linda Anderson, The Music Stand, Garfield Stuff, Characters and New Bargains catalog brands to Direct Retailing Inc.

• Phishing Attacks to Double by Next Year: Report

  Losses from fraudulent e-mail phishing attacks will total $137 million globally in 2004, estimates TowerGroup.

• Kansas Jumps on Canadian Web-Drug Bandwagon

  Kansas residents will be able to buy lower-cost prescription drugs from Canada and Europe under a new program from Gov. Kathleen Sebelius.

• Collegiate Pacific to Acquire Orlando Team Sports

  Collegiate Pacific has signed a letter of intent to acquire Orlando Team Sports (OTS), a regional distributor of team sporting goods.

• News Briefs

  COOLBRANDS INTERNATIONAL, INC.: has entered into four new brand licenses for new frozen snacks to be distributed in the U.S. next year. They are: Care Bears, Justice League (including Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman), No Pudge! and Snapple. …

• MarketPlace Direct Launches Online Fulfillment Service

  MarketPlace Direct Inc. has launched Fulfillment Caf

• Short Cuts

  AvVaa World Health Care Products Inc. has kicked off
  a commercial and informational Web site http://www.help4skincare.com.

• List and Database News

  Mailing lists for rent.

• DMA Shakes Up Its Executive Staff

  John A. Greco Jr., new CEO of the Direct Marketing Association, today announced his much-anticipated executive shake-up.

• Pushing the Envelope: My Civic Duty

  As I write this column, it