Chief Marketer Staff

• Europe Becomes Large Online Holiday Market

  Europe will become the No. 1 region for worldwide online sales in the fourth quarter, Worldwide online holiday sales in 2002 are projected to total $38.2

• CoolSavings Launches Coupon Network

  CoolSavings Inc. is launching an Internet distribution network for coupons and samples from CPG manufacturers, retailers and restaurants. CoolSavings

• Loose Cannon: Your Tax Dollars Subsidize Bad Airline CRM

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• DIRECT Listline

  Sports Weekly Worldata/Webconnect has won the management of this file of more than 225,641 subscribers to this publication formerly known as Baseball

• Barnes&Noble. com Trims Losses

  Barnes & Noble.com reported a net loss of $17.5 million for the third quarter, a 54% over a $38.3 million loss last year. Consolidated net sales for the

• Bean to Offer Early Retirement to 500

  L.L. Bean Inc. is offering early retirement packages to about 500 employees, according to wire service reports. The Freeport, ME cataloger said that diminished

• Printcafe Acquires Online Assets

  Printcafe Software Inc., which powers online print-procurement systems, will acquire the assets of printChannel Inc. for a undisclosed sum. Along with

• Reader’s Digest Losses Widen

  The Reader’s Digest Association Inc. reported a net loss of $5.2 million for its first quarter, compared to $1.1 million last year.

• Short Cuts

  Verizon Information Services, the publisher of Hispanic yellow pages, has launched its first bilingual SuperPages directory in Tampa, FL. The directory

• Amazon Trims Net Loss as Sales Jump

  Amazon.com reported net sales of $851 million in third quarter 2002, compared with $639 million in third quarter 2001. The company reduced its net loss