Chief Marketer Staff

• Loose Cannon: Wistful Resolutions for 2003

  Unlike most New Year

• Kazmierczak Leaves MemberWorks

  Walter Kazmierczak, executive vice president membership services for MemberWorks Inc., has left the company to pursue other interests, according to MemberWorks.

• DIRECT Listline

  Crafts Report This business journal for the crafts industry is read by 18,259 artists, teachers, retailers and students. They are interested in turning

• J. Crew Borrows More Money

  J. Crew Group, Inc. has lined up a new $180 million credit facility from Wachovia Bank, N.A. and Congress Financial Corp. This facility consists of a

• Sharper Image Posts Record Holiday Sales

  Sharper Image Corp. reported record holiday sales of $111 million, up 28% over $86 million last year.

• Online Holiday Spending Just Shy of $8 Billion

  Consumers spent about $7.92 billion online this holiday season, up 23% from last year, according to market research firm BizRate.com. The 2002 holiday

• DIRECT Listline

  Consumer Household Database Dunhill International List Co. is introducing this more than 100-million-name database containing data on over 150 segment

• Justice Department Clears Level3/Genuity Acquisition

  The U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission have approved Level 3’s proposed acquisition of Genuity Inc. for $242 million. Under the

• Trans Cosmos Completes DoubleClick Japan Acquisition

  Trans Cosmos Inc., a Japanese IT service provider, has completed its tender offer to acquire DoubleClick Japan for $14 million. DoubleClick Japan will

• Short Cut

  Information compiler InfoUSA, Omaha, said Rob Chandra has stepped down from its board of directors due to “increasing professional demands from his position