Chief Marketer Staff

• Barnesandnoble.com Sales Exceed Company’s 1998 Projections

  Barnesandnoble.com, the online branch of bookseller Barnes & Noble, Inc., had 1998 sales of $70.2 million, exceeding the company’s projection of $60-$65

• Merger of Golf DMers Sets Stage for E-Marketing Plans

  Grafix Corp. d/b/a Carrera Golf, Englewood, CO, will merge with Golf One Industries, Inc. Following the merger, Golf One will own approximately 86% of

• Acxiom Announces Two New Facilities, New Data Product

  Acxiom Corp., Conway, AR, said it plans to build two new buildings in central Arkansas, in addition to two facilities that will be occupied in April this

• DIRECT Listline

  Physicists at Work A list of 31,874 physicists who work in the areas of nuclear, atomic, molecular, chemical, biological and plasma physics is newly updated.

• Netcreations Signs New List-Management Agreement

  NetCreations, New York, has signed a list management agreement with Cool Site of the Day (http://www.coolsiteoftheday.com). NetCreations will build and

• NMOA Announces European Market CD-ROM

  The National Mail Order Association announced the availability of a new CD-ROM that details the mail order marketplace in Europe.The disk, entitled “Mail

• Concepts Direct Posts Losses for Quarter, Year

  Cataloger Concepts Direct, Inc., baseD in Longmont, CO, reported earnings of $424,000 for the quarter ended Dec. 31, 1998, a decline from $1.17 million

• CNET Acquires AuctionGate Interactive for Stock

  CNET, Inc., a San Francisco-based Internet media company, has acquired online computer auctioning service AuctionGate Interactive, Inc. for approximately

• Torstar Sells Troll Communications for $70 Million

  Canadian media conglomerate Torstar Corp., based in Toronto, has sold Troll Communications, its children’s’ books direct marketing operation which lost

• DMDNY Conference Set For May 24-27 at New York Hilton

  The 1999 Direct Marketing Days in New York annual conference will take place May 24-27 at the New York Hilton & Towers. Larry Light, president of Arcature