Chief Marketer Staff

• Listline e-Newsletter 6/29

  This file names 705,718 magazine subscribers ages 70 and above who’ve reported buying health-related products and services

• ShopNBC Chooses Randy Ronning as Chairman

  ShopNBC

• Agencies

  NRF, Retail Industry Leaders Call Off Merger

  The National Retail Federation (NRF) and the Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA) have ended previously announced merger discussions.

• Agencies

  Dress Barn To Acquire Tween Brands

  Dress Barn, Inc. will acquire Tween Brands Inc. in a stock-for-stock transaction. More, including The Hand-Wringer’s Take, follows.

• Direct Media and Millard Combine

  InfoGroup has merged Direct Media and Millard to form Direct Media Millard (DMM), a new combined list brokerage and management operation that launches July 1.

• Listline e-Newsletter 6/25

  True North List Marketing has taken over management of this compilation which names 27,460 professionals. Bethesda List Center was the previous
  manager

• Planet Orange Re-launches for ING Direct

  According to a recent Harris Interactive survey, more than 27% of U.S. parents admitted that they would rather talk to their kids about sex and dating than about money and finances

• WPP Agencies and Microsoft to Conduct Research on Search Marketing

  WPP agencies and Microsoft Advertising plan to conduct a research project exploring the relationship between search engine marketing and brand building

• TracyLocke Promotes Kaminkow to President and COO

  TracyLocke promoted last Friday Beth Ann Kaminkow to president and COO

• Dallas Massage Clinics Offer Facebook, Twitter Fans Free Massages

  Stores in the Dallas-Fort Worth region of the Massage Envy chain are enticing area fans to raise their hands and follow it on Facebook and Twitter by offering to give a free massage daily in each of those channels for the next month