Chief Marketer Staff

• Agencies

  Children Take Over Times Square Nov. 8th

  On Nov. 8 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. children of all ages will have full reign of Times Square. For the first time, area businesses have joined together to

• Unilever Sells Two U.K. Divisions

  Unilever Bestfoods will sell U.K. dairy business Ambrosia and desserts business Brown & Polson to Premier Foods. Unilever sheds the business as part of

• News Briefs

  SHELL OIL: tapped Carlson Marketing Group, Minneapolis, to handle event management for Shell Hellas’ sponsorship of the 2004 Olympics Summer Games in

• Mail-Well Revenue Off, But Profits Up, in Third Quarter

  Mail-Well Inc.’s third-quarter revenue slipped from $429 million in third-quarter 2002 to $412 million during the quarter just ended, but it generated

• Short Cuts

  Creditcards.com, a Boston online credit card marketer, will acquire, www.creditcard.com, which it describes as “the singular domain name version of its

• List and Database News

  Rodale Home Entertainment Master File Millard Group Inc. has won management of this file if last-12-month buyers of home videos from Rodale Sports and

• Mail Stream: A Report on Incoming Direct Mail

  Do 6-year-olds need tuxedos? In launching “His First” line for boys, upscale men’s apparel manufacturer and retailer Hickey Freeman says yes.

• Drugstore.com Acquires International Vision Direct

  Drugstore.com an online pharmacy, will acquire contact lens direct marketer International Vision Direct Corp. for more than $10 million in cash and stock.

• Betty Warden Wins CADM Pat Wheelless Award

  Betty Warden has been named recipient of the third annual Pat Wheelless Award for Outstanding Mentorship by the Chicago Association of Direct Marketing.

• U.K. Wildcat Postal Strike Ends

  Royal Mail expected to take a few weeks to clear a backlog of more than 10 million unsorted letters, after a crippling period of wildcat strikes over