Chief Marketer Staff

• IDG Manages Two New E-mail Lists

  IDG Communications List Services, Framingham, MA, has become manager of the e-mail subscriber lists for two IDG publications. These subscribers have given

• Japanese Mail Container Forgotten for Five Weeks

  A freight ship container bearing 31,000 items of mail from the United States remained forgotten and unattended for five weeks in the port of Yokohama

• Metris Cos. Buys $1.3B Portfolio from GE Capital

  A subsidiary of credit card marketer Metris Cos. Inc. has agreed to buy a portion of GE Capital’s consumer bank card portfolio. Terms of the transaction,

• DIRECT Listline

  Direct Mail Senior Donors This 55,000-name list identifies senior citizens who have donated to a direct mail campaign addressing Social Security and Medicare

• Movie Ticket Frequency Program Expands to Phoenix

  MovieFone Inc., the movie listing and ticketing service and American Express Co. have brought their jointly developed moviegoer frequency program in the

• Cendant Names Executive VP-Finance And Chief Accounting Officer

  Cendant Corp., New York, has named Jon F. Danski executive vice president-finance and chief accounting officer. Danski joins Cendant’s senior management

• NCR And Quadstone Launch Alliance

  NCR Corp. and Quadstone Ltd. launched a strategic partnership today. The London-based alliance, led by NCR’s Financial Solutions Group, centers on Quadstone’s

• USPS Withdraws Request PRC Endorse Mailing Online For Now

  The U.S. Postal Service withdrew its request for a Postal Rate Commission endorsement for Mailing Online, an experimental electronic service for expediting

• Short Cuts

  Miller/Huber Relationship Marketing, San Francisco, hired David McDermott as managing copywriter. His background includes work for J. Walter Thompson,

• USPS Tests Returns Confirmations

  The U.S. Postal Service last week launched a limited test of a program for mailers that combines its Delivery Confirmation and merchandise return services.