Chief Marketer Staff

• DIRECT Listline

  Hospital Job Titles Several new job titles and functions have been added to this hospital administration database. The new selections include quality

• Management Changes At Lands’ End

  Bradley K. Johnson, senior vice president, chief administrative and financial officer, Lands’ End Inc., Dodgeville, WI, has resigned “to pursue other

• Howard Draft Wins CADM Award While DraftWorldwide Fattens Roster

  Howard Draft, chairman/CEO of DraftWorldwide, Chicago, has been named Charles S. Downs Chicago Direct Marketer of the Year by the Chicago Association

• Fingerhut Closes On Bedford Fair

  Fingerhut Companies Inc., Minneapolis, completed the acquisition of Bedford Fair. Fingerhut is a direct response database marketing company selling a

• FTC Agenda Revealed

  Federal Communications Commission Chairman William Kennard last week unveiled an ambitious agenda for the agency over the next 12 months that includes

• FCB Acquires CM Partners

  Chicago advertising agency Foote, Cone & Belding, a subsidiary of True North Communications Inc., has acquired CM Partners, a Rolling Meadows, IL-based

• Despite Settlement, Cendant Still Faces Common Stock Class Action Suit

  Cendant Corp., the firm created from the merger of Parsippany, NJ-based franchiser HFS Inc. and membership package service vendor CUC International Inc.,

• Reader’s Digest Declares Quarterly Dividend

  Reader’s Digest, Pleasantville, NY, declared a quarterly dividend of five cents on each share of Class A nonvoting and Class B voting common stock. The

• Claire’s Closing Just Nikki:) Catalog

  Claire’s Stores Inc., Pembroke Pines, FL, is closing its Just Nikki:) catalog, saying it has spent the last couple months “analyzing response rates, operating

• Fund Set Up For DM Copywriter Ed McLean

  Veteran direct marketers Robert Bly, Milton Pierce, and Lee Epstein have established a fund to help legendary copywriter McLean, who has been stricken