Chief Marketer Staff

• Healthcare Suppliers Form Internet Venture

  Healthcare suppliers AmeriSource Health Corp., Cardinal Health Inc. Fisher Scientific International Inc. and McKesson HBOC Inc. have signed a definitive

• Reader’s Digest, Bertelsmann May Merge Some Units

  Reader’s Digest Association, Pleasantville, NY, has been talking to Bertelsmann AG, about possibly combining some of its business units with the media

• Auction for Customer File Moves From Yahoo! to eBay

  The auction for Market Logistics Group’s customer file, listed earlier this week at a Yahoo! auction site, was allegedly pulled by the Internet Service

• BuyItNow Sells Interest in CosmeticsPlus.com

  BuyItNow Inc., Los Angeles, has sold its interest in CosmeticsPlus.com LLC to more.com Inc. for $7.5 million in cash and stock. Performance-based incentives

• Vita-Mix

  The Vita-Mix Masterfile is now managed by List Services Corp. On the market for almost 80 years, Vita-Mix offers buyers high-performance kitchen appliances

• Privacy Violation Suits Filed Against Toys R Us, Others

  Two class actions lawsuits, alleging improper dissemination of customer data, have been filed against Toys R Us Inc.Finkelstein, Thompson & Loughran,

• MetaResponse Named Reseller of PostMasterDirect’s Database

  MetaResponse Group, Palm City, FL, has been named as reseller of PostMasterDirect.com’s database of more than 12 million opt-in e-mail addresses.Starting

• Harte-Hanks Acquires Telemarketing Company

  San Antonio, TX-based Harte-Hanks Inc., has acquired Hi-Tech Marketing, a supplier of telemarketing services to the information technology industry. The

• Internet Commerce Corp. Acquires Service Bureau

  Internet Commerce Corp., a New York-based electronic business supply chain network, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Intercoastal Data Corp.,

• Quebecoor North American CD Facility Sold for $63 Million

  Vancouver-based Q-Media has purchased the North American CD replicating and fulfillment facilities of Quebecor World Inc. for $63 million. The sale price