Chief Marketer Staff

• Short Cuts

  Home-improvement warehouse HomeBase Inc., Irvine, CA, has appointed Susan Caumiant to manager of direct marketing. She will be responsible for managing

• Multex.Com to Acquire Market Guide in Stock Deal

  New York-based financial information provider Multex.com Inc. has signed an agreement to acquire Market Guide Inc., a leading provider of financial information

• Rite Aid and GNC Acquire Drugstore.com for $25 Million

  Drug store retail chain Rite Aid Corp., Camp Hill, PA, and vitamin direct marketer General Nutrition Corp. have bought a 25% stake in pharmaceutical Web

• Talbots Chooses circle.com to Help Launch Web Site

  The Talbots Inc., Hingham, MA, has chosen circle.com as its interactive agency of record. The retailer and cataloger plans to launch its Web site by the

• Signs Point Toward An ALC-DMI Merger

  The Acxiom-Direct Media marriage may be at an end.Sources said that a letter of intent was signed on Monday for a merger between American List Counsel

• DIRECT Listline

  Mays Pond by Orvis The Millard Group has been chosen as manager of the 114,187-name last-12-month buyers file. These individuals purchased apparel and

• Short Cuts

  Harte-Hanks Direct Marketing, Cincinnati, has appointed Jeffrey Rich to senior business development specialist of its retail sales organization. In another

• Novus to Do Modeling for Artistic Direct Files

  The analytical strategies group of Novus Marketing Inc., Valhalla, NY, has contracted with Artistic Direct to perform modeling services and list rental

• Congressional Commission Explores E-Commerce Tax Collection

  Industry and government representatives split over the possibility of collecting taxes on Internet sales, according to reports. According to one study,

• Privacy Advocates Condemn Abacus/DoubleClick Merger

  Junkbusters (www.junkbusters.com) and the Electronic Privacy Information Center have condemned the proposed billion-dollar merger of DoubleClick Inc.