Chief Marketer Staff

• WCJ Appoints Two New Executive Vice Presidents

  Wunderman Cato Johnson, New York, has created two new positions. The first, executive vice president, worldwide practice leader, teleservices, has been

• 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

• HouseHold Direct To Buy Unimart Group

  HouseHold Direct Inc., Bloomfield, CT, will purchase the Unimart Group, including its seven membership clubs in Kansas, Oregon, Nebraska, Colorado, and

• 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

• 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

• New President At Havana Cigar Club

  The Havana Group Inc. appointed Gary J. Corbett president. He had been vice president, Fred Stoker & Sons. The Havana Group operates the Web site-based

• New President At NM Direct

  The Neiman Marcus Group Inc. named Sharen Jester Turney president and chief executive officer of NM Direct, the Neiman Marcus’s Texas-based catalog company.

• Acquisitions Boost Fortunes of American Educational Products

  American Educational Products Inc., Boulder, CO, had $11.7 million in sales during fiscal 1998, up 39% from $8.4 million in fiscal 1997. For the year,

• Anti-Piracy, EU Compliance Issues At Congressional Hearing

  The number of years databases should be protected before third parties can use or copy them without permission became an issue last week at the first