Chief Marketer Staff

• House Introduces Sweepstakes Regulation Bills

  With two Senate subcommittees about to launch a joint investigation into the direct mail sweepstakes industry, a pair of bills have been introduced in

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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,

• 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

• 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.

• 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

• 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

• 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