Chief Marketer Staff

• DMA CEO Search Team Announced

  Seven Direct Marketing Association board members, and one executive, have been charged with finding the DMA’s next president and CEO.

• Valassis Brings List Management In-House

  Valassis will bring management of its Valassis Lists products in-house

• Insist on Clean Data Above All

  What’s important when you’re planning an e-mail campaign? Speed? Deliverability? List quality? The fact is, if you’re concerned only with the speed of turnaround, then you could be doing yourself a disservice in the quality and deliverability of the file you are using.

• OmniReliant CEO Steps Down

  Paul W. Morrison, president, CEO and secretary of OmniReliant Holdings, Inc., has resigned from all three positions

• Agencies

  CMS Group Acquires Victory Direct Marketing

  The CMS Group of Baltimore, MD has acquired Victory Direct Marketing, a direct mail marketing firm.

• INCC Cancels Acquisition of Millennium Teleservices Operations

  International Consolidated Companies, Inc. (INCC) has rescinded its previously announced acquisition of the operations of Millennium Teleservices, LLC.

• Agencies

  USPS Overpaid Pension Fund by $75 Billion: Report

  The U.S. Postal Service has overpaid its pension obligations to the Civil Service Retirement System by $75 billion and the method for calculating this amount was unfair, says a new report from the postal service

• EBay Income Surges in Quarter

  EBay Inc. posted net income $1.4 billion for the fourth quarter, a 269% increase over net income of $367 million in the prior year. The e-commerce company reported revenue of $2.4 billion for the quarter ended Dec, 31, a 16% increase over $2 billion the …

• FCC Proposes Robocall Rules

  The Federal Communications Commission has proposed tighter rules governing unsolicited recorded telephone solicitation, or

• Agencies

  Sharper Image Names August Senior VP, CMO

  SharperImage.com has named Steve August senior vice president and chief marketing officer.