Chief Marketer Staff

• ValueVision’s First Quarter Sales Up, Income Down

  ValueVision International Inc., Minneapolis, reported net income of $6.4 million on net sales of $53.1 million for the first quarter ended April 30, 1999,

• 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

• 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

• 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

• DIRECT Listline

  Linuxworld Conference and Expo IDG Communications is managing this 10,000-name list, which identifies computer professionals who attended this conference

• Grizzard Buys Coleman & Coleman

  Grizzard, an 80-year-old direct marketing agency based in Atlanta, has acquired Coleman & Coleman, a Houston-based brand consulting firm. Financial details

• Short Cuts

  Direct marketing agency BrannBlau, formerly Barry Blau & Partners, Inc., has opened a new Baltimore area office at 1111 South Calvert Street. The company

• Louisiana Grand Jury Questions Duke’s $1,900/M Mailing List

  David Duke, a perennial Republican political candidate and former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard, has been called before a Louisiana grand jury investigating