Chief Marketer Staff

• Pinault-Printemps U.S. Catalog Sales Said To Rise

  French cataloger and retailer Pinault-Printemps-Redoute SA reported a “slight decline” in catalog in France in the first half of 1999 and small increase

• Banta Posts Lower 2Q Earnings As Expected

  Banta Corp., Menasha, WI, earned a net income of $11.8 million, or 43 cents diluted earning per share, for the second quarter of 1999, before the effects

• Federal Court Denies Cendant Prosecutors Request For Delay

  U.S. District Court in Newark, NJ, denied a request by federal prosecutors for more time to investigate alleged criminal conduct in Cendant Corp.’s accounting

• Short Cuts

  Datek Online awarded Bozell Worldwide its $80-million account. Bozell will create in integrated branding campaign for the Internet brokerage firm.Cataloger

• InfoUSA Reports Income and Sales Declines

  Business information compiler infoUSA Inc., based in Omaha, NE, reported Net income of $5.7 million for the quarter ended June 30, a large decline from

• Acxiom, PerformanceData to Link List Databases

  An agreement between Acxiom Corp., Little Rock, AR, and PerformanceData, a division of Trans Union LLC, to link databases will save time the development

• Quebecor 2Q Earnings: $226 Million

  Quebecor Inc., Montreal, earned a net income of $226 million for the second quarter ended June 30. The net income was made up of net income for operations

• FTC Settles With Truth-In-Lending DR AD Flap With Fleet

  Fleet Finance Inc, Atlanta, and its successor companies, Home Equity U.S. A., have jointly agreed to pay the Federal Trade Commission $1.3 million to

• DIRECT Listline

  Ducks Unlimited Novus Marketing has been named manager for the 526,000-name Ducks Unlimited file. Ducks Unlimited is a nonprofit membership organization

• infoUSA Buys Donnelley, Appoints New Board Member

  infoUSA, Omaha, NE, completed buying Donnelley Marketing, a division of First Data Corp., for $200 million in cash. First Data’s president and chief operating