Chief Marketer Staff

• 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

• Wells-Gardner to Debut Online Catalog

  Video products manufacturer and marketer Wells-Gardner Electronics Corp., Chicago, plans to release its first online, comprehensive product catalog during

• DIRECT LISTLINE

  Facility Executives This new database of property and facility executives identifies 338,107 of these managerial types. There are 245,367 males and 46,575

• Fingerhut Net Revenue Up, But Acquisitions Depress Net Earnings

  Fingerhut Companies Inc., Minneapolis, reported net revenue for its fourth quarter of $659.8 million, up 18% from $560.3 million in the same period last

• 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.

• ADVO’s Revenue Up in First Quarter

  ADVO Inc., Windsor, CT, had first-quarter 1999 revenue of $260 million, up 2.5% from first-quarter 1998. The company’s operating income of $20.1 million,

• Pat Robertson New Board Member at Laura Ashley

  International retailer and cataloger Laura Ashley Holdings Plc, London, named televangelist and conservative gadfly Pat Robertson a non-executive director

• Short Cuts

  DMW Worldwide/Philadelphia, Wayne, PA, appointed Wendy Z. Vagnoni creative director. Her background includes positions at National Liberty and GE Financial

• New House Bill Would Bar Commercial USPS Ventures

  In an apparent move to undermine a colleague’s legislative plan to overhaul the U.S. Postal Service, Rep. Duncan Hunter has introduced a bill that would

• Brad Epstein Joins I-Traffic as Creative Director

  I-traffic, a New York-based interactive direct marketing agency, has hired Brad Epstein as creative director. Most recently, Epstein held the position