Chief Marketer Staff

• MSGI’s Stevens-Knox Acquisition To Enhance London Business

  The acquisition of Stevens-Knox List Management, New York, by Marketing Services Group Inc., New York, will be used to expand both companies’ international

• UIG, Mediamark Research’s Parent Firm, Acquires Audits & Surveys

  United Information Group, London, has acquired Audits & Surveys Worldwide Inc, a New York-based market research company. The purchase price was $42.5

• Short Cuts

  A J.P. Morgan analyst has listed direct marketing firm Harte-Hanks Inc. with a buy rating, according to Reuters. In doing so, the analyst cited the company’s

• Amazon.com Adds Bric-a-brac To Books

  Interiors Inc. will now offer its line of decorative accessories through Amazon.com in addition to its own Web site, Interiors.com. Interiors will link

• E-Commerce At Super Bowl Web Site

  eCommerce Corp., Stamford, CT, will develop the e-commerce capabilities of the official Super Bowl XXXIII Web site, www.superbowl.com. The company developed

• Black Box Completes Key-Four Merger

  Computer networking equipment direct marketer Black Box Corp., based in Pittsburgh, has completed the merger of Key-Four Inc. into a wholly owned subsidiary.

• Catalog Is Culprit in Damark Revenue Drop

  Damark International Inc., Minneapolis, had 1998 net revenue of $484.4 million, down 18.5% from $594.6 million in 1997. Much of the drop came from its

• Garden Botanika Has Top-Executive Shakeup

  Garden Botanika, Inc., Redmond, WA, has made a number of changes to its board of directors and senior management. Michael Luce will step aside as president

• Hello Direct Appoints VP, CIO

  Hello Direct, Inc., a San Jose, CA, direct marketer of telephone productivity tools, has appointed Michael Young as vice president, chief information

• SHORT CUTS

  West TeleServices Corp., Omaha, has announced it will open a new call center in Tallahassee, FL, creating approximately 250 jobs. West TeleServices Corp.,