Chief Marketer Staff

• New ALC New England Specializes in E-Mail Lists

  The newly formed ALC New England, based in Stamford, CT, will serve as a full-service list management and brokerage firm with special emphasis on e-mail

• Lycos, USA Launch Joint Web/TV Ventures

  USA Networks Inc. and Lycos Inc. have launched two joint promotions, seemingly to help build investor confidence in the cable and home shopping network’s

• Cahners, Boucher Combine Databases

  Cahners Business Lists has combined its database with the 1.5-million name DecisionMaker IT Marketplace Database from Boucher Communications magazine

• Black Box Acquires Chilean Company

  Computer networking direct marketer Black Box Corp., Pittsburgh, has purchased the cabling and network connectivity business of Icon Telemarketing Technologic

• Short Cuts

  NineCo, Boston, an online database marketing company, has changed its name to Gamesville.com, a move that reflects is Gamesville.com Web site, which targets

• Aircraft Companies Debut Training Catalog

  FlightSafety Boeing Training International, a Seattle-based provider of airline training, has issued what it claims to be the industry’s first single

• DIRECT Listline

  Pet Care Pak Insert Program This never-before-available program from Snyder Marketing Services offers space in up to 250,000 dog paks and 150,000 cat

• Ease of Shopping Key to Internet Commerce Experience: Survey

  Thirty-nine percent of consumers with Internet access say they are going to brick-and-mortar stores less frequently, according to the Shopping 2000 survey

• First Data To Acquire Huge Chunk of Paymentech

  Electronic payment services provider First Data Corp., based in Atlanta, has signed definitive agreements with Bank One Corp and merchant credit-card

• Diller Eyes Two Film Companies, But Won’t Be “Big Studio Guy”

  Barry Diller, chairman, USA Networks wants to buy October Films and Gramercy Pictures as part of a strategy of “vertical integration” but has no plans