Chief Marketer Staff

• S&S Worldwide acquires Sally Distributors

  (Catalog Age) S&S Worldwide, which sells games, crafts, and activities to schools, rehabilitation centers, and other institutions, has acquired substantially

• Pennsylvania Consumers Tie Up Do-Not-Call Line

  Consumers swamped telephone and computer lines for Pennsylvania’s do-not-call list during its first day of existence. As of 5 p.m. yesterday, 206,000

• Teleperformance USA Acquires Comm.Comm

  Teleperformance USA has acquired the assets of Communications & Commerce (Comm.Comm). Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Teleperformance, which

• Alloy Buys YouthStream Media Networks for $7 Million

  Alloy Inc. has acquired assets of Youthstream Media Networks Inc. for $7 million.

• DMA Names Easter Seals Nonprofit of the Year

  The Direct Marketing Association has named Easter Seals the Nonprofit Organization of the Year for 2002. “Despite the current economic and political climate,

• Dawn Zier to Run Reader’s Digest’s Circulation Operations

  Reader’s Digest Association, Inc., has named Dawn Zier vice president and circulation director for Reader’s Digest, its flagship publication. Zier had

• Jon Miller Appointed Chief of AOL

  AOL Time Warner Inc. has hired Jon Miller to lead the company’s America Online division, reports said. Miller will replace Robert Pittman as chief of

• Standard & Poor’s to Monitor Interpublic Group’s Credit Ratings

  Standard & Poor’s has placed The Interpublic Group of Cos. Inc., on its CreditWatch list. The announcement came the day after Interpublic said it would

• Labor Union Blasts Brylane

  Brylane Corp., a retail/catalog company, has been savaged by a labor union for its alleged anti-union activities. The company’s filing of a National Labor

• BusinessWeek Chooses VentureDirect to Manage New Statement Stuffer Program

  BusinessWeek tapped VentureDirect Worldwide to manage a new Monthly Statement Insert Program on Aug. 2. The business-to-business program will reach 140,000