Chief Marketer Staff

• Sharper Image’s Thompson Named Senior VP, Marketing

  Sharper Image Corp., San Francisco, has promoted Robert Thompson to senior vice president, merchandising. His new duties will include assuming responsibility

• Crown Vantage Relocates Headquarters to Cincinnati

  Crown Vantage Inc., an Oakland, CA-based paper and packaging manufacturer, has begun relocating its corporate headquarters to Cincinnati. The relocation

• Short Cuts

  Online sporting goods marketer MountainZone.com, has hired Union Street.com to build an interactive community that ties together the company’s online

• DIRECT Listline

  Embase–Biomedical & Clinical International A database containing the names of more than 100,000 international specialists in the fields of pharmacology

• Correction

  An item, which ran on yesterday’s Newsline about Millard Group managing Georgetown Publishing files, provided an incorrect count for the Organized Executive

• AMN 2nd Q Sales Up

  Alternate Marketing Networks Inc., Grand Rapids, MI, reports net sales of $7.043 million for the second quarter ended June 30, 1999, up from $4.77 million

• DIRECT Listline

  Software Developers–I&TM Database Marketing Concepts has become manager of the software developers database with more than 130,000 names. This list identifies

• Lands’ End Sales Up 6.4% for 2nd Q

  Lands’ End Inc., Dodgeville, WI, reports that net sales for its second quarter ended July 30, 1999, totaled $254.6 million, up 6.4% from sales of $239.2

• Short Cuts

  Edith Roman Associates, Pearl River, NY has appointed Terry Hudock as vice president of consumer list brokerage. Hudock, who has almost two decades of

• Forrester Reports Online Ad Spending to Increase

  Internet advertising will continue to grow at a fast pace, according to a report to be issued next week by Forrester Research Inc., Cambridge, MA.The