Chief Marketer Staff

• Shoe Retailer J. Baker To Acquire Repp Catalog, Stores

  Shoe and apparel retailer J. Baker Inc., based in Canton, MA, has received the approval of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware to acquire

• Live From Chicago: J. Jill Aims for Synergy

  Having his team focused on the concept of one brand across several channels is Gordon Cooke’s strategy for catalog-online-retail synergy.Cooke, president

• Short Cuts

  Barton Faber, the former chairman and CEO of Metromail, has joined the board of directors of AdForce, a centralized online ad management service. Faber

• InfoUSA Launches New Portal Site

  InfoUSA, Omaha, has launched http://www.infousa.com, a vertical portal site that offers its proprietary database, products and services, along with those

• House Panel Puts Off Postal Reform Bill Consideration

  The House Government Reform Committee has delayed consideration of the Postal Modernization Act of 1999 (HR-22), which would overhaul the U.S. Postal

• Brookstone Net Losses and Sales Increase in Quarter

  Tools and giftware cataloger/retailer Brookstone Inc, Nashua, NH, reported a net loss of $4.6 million for the first quarter ended May 1, compared with

• Tickets.com Completes Merger With Advantix

  Ticket direct marketer Tickets.com (www.tickets.com), based in Newport Beach, CA, has completed its merger with Advantix Inc.Terms were not disclosed.The

• DIRECT Listline

  Art Educators Some 75,000 card decks are mailed each year to art teachers of kindergarten through grade 12. Other recipients include specialists, classroom

• Venture Named Agency of Record for Drkoop.com

  DM company VentureDirect Worldwide, New York, has been named online agency of record for Drkoop.com (http://www.drkoop.com), a consumer site headed by

• Donnelley, Experian to Jointly Offer Financial Platforms

  Experian, an information provider, and R.R. Donnelley Financial, a division of R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co., have signed an agreement to provide mutual fund