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  • Efforts to Buy Fingerhut Fail

    Federated Department Stores Inc. and Business Development Group Acquisition Inc. (BDGA) have terminated negotiations for the sale of Federated subsidiary

  • USPS Sends Message of Caution After Pipe Bomb Explosions

    The U.S. Postal Service has urged residents in several Midwestern states to use extreme caution when opening rural roadside mailboxes after a series of

  • Designs Inc. to Acquire Casual Male

    Designs Inc., Needham, MA, will purchase the assets of Casual Male Corp for $170 million. Design was selected by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern

  • Davox to Change Name to Concerto Software

    Davox Corp., a customer interaction software manufacturer, will change its name to Concerto Software Inc. The company has given up its former Nasdaq symbol,

  • AIM to Release E-mail Append Best Practices

    The Association for Interactive Marketing is releasing its best practices for e-mail append on Tuesday at the net.marketing conference in New York. A copy of the latest version of the document, which DIRECT Newsline obtained, deals with marketer/customer relationships, opt in and wording of requests.

  • Rhode Island Motor Bill Wins First Approval

    The Rhode Island Department of Motor Vehicles would have to obtain a person’s permission before sharing their personal information with third parties for marketing purposes under a bill unanimously approved by the state House of Representatives last week.

  • Coldwater Creek Fires Accounting Firm Arthur Andersen

    Coldwater Creek has dismissed Arthur Andersen LLP as its independent public accountants. The Sandpoint, ID-based women’s apparel, gift and accessories

  • DIRECT Listline

    Converging Communications Now available from Rubin Response Management Services Inc. is the Converging Communications Opt-in e-mail address list. There

  • Quinlan Joins 1-800-Flowers.com Board

    Mary Lou Quinlan, founder and CEO of Just Ask A Woman, has joined 1-800-Flowers.com’s board of directors. Quinlan’s New York based consulting firm specializes

  • Loose Cannon: Yet Another “Month” Month

    Poets and novelists speak fancifully of the hour of the wolf and the day of the jackal. But it was a decidedly less romantic soul that designated May