Chief Marketer Staff

• New Industrial Product Web Site Debuts

  MROSolution.com Inc., based in Santa Clara, CA, has unveiled its new Web site, IndustrialZones.com, a major global strategic supplier network of industrial

• Catalog Sales Help Save Jos. A. Bank Quarter After Retail Promotion Flop

  Jos. A. Bank Clothiers, Inc., Hampstead, MA, had first-quarter 1999 net sales of $43.6 million, up 1% from $43.4 million a year ago. Net income fell from

• Federated Says “I Do” to E-Commerce

  Federated Department Stores Inc. will buy a 20% interest in WeddingChannel.com and work with that firm to create an in-store and online bridal registry,

• Live From New York: USPS Adds Argentina, Australia to Catalog Program

  Catalogers test mailing into Argentina or Australia will soon be able to retain Uncle Sam as a DM consultant due to planned expansions to the USPS’s New

• Anti-Spam Bills Mount in Congress

  Rep. Gene Green (D-TX), Tuesday became the fifth member of Congress since March to introduce legislation seeking to regulate unsolicited commercial e-mail,

• SpeciaLists Tapped to Manage Coach

  The SpeciaLists has been appointed list manager of the Coach leatherware catalog list. This 12-month buyers file totals more than 82,000 names and the

• House Measure Would Make USPS Stock One-Cent Stamps

  A bill has been introduced in Congress that would prohibit the U.S. Postal Service from increasing the price of mailing a first class letter unless it

• Peterman Turning a Profit, Paul Harris Says

  Just seven weeks after J. Peterman Co. filed for bankruptcy and its assets were sold, the catalog is making money, according to its new owner, Paul Harris

• Cendant Selling Auto Leasing Unit to Avis

  Cendant Corp., New York, has reached an agreement to sell its auto leasing and fleet-management unit to Avis Rent a Car Inc. for $1.44 billion in cash

• USPS Denies It Wants an E-mail Tax

  The increased use of e-mail may be cutting into the U.S. Postal Service’s volume of mail and revenues, but it says reports that it’s working with a “Congressman