Chief Marketer Staff

• Acxiom’s Howe Named CEO of Kowabunga

  Richard K. Howe has been named president and CEO of Kowabunga, an online media placement firm. He will also sit on the company

• Steven Semmelmayer Takes Helm At Discus Dental

  Discus Dental, a business-to-business marketer of oral hygiene and tooth-whitening products to dentists, has tapped Steven J. Semmelmayer to serve as its CEO.

• Agencies

  DM Channels Lead NBTY Fourth Quarter Results

  NBTY Inc., a nutritional supplement manufacturer and marketer, generated $602 million in sales during its most recent fourth quarter, up from $496 million a year ago. The company

• Agencies

  Layoffs Follow Valassis Communications’ Loss

  Valassis Communications will reduce its United States workforce by 3%, according to forms filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

• Agencies

  EmailAppenders Hawking Bogus List, Claims Publisher

  EmailAppenders has been marketing a file of names and addresses the list

• Agencies

  ZoomInfo Debuts List Download Service

  ZoomInfo today unveiled a service that allows business-to-business marketers to download lists

• Agencies

  Stupid Consumer Watch: Found! 28 Biggest Morons

  Eegads! Some computer scientists in Berkeley and San Diego, CA have 28 prime new candidates for the Darwin Disk. What

• Agencies

  Pivotal Veracity Adds Firefox to Rendering Tool

  E-mail deliverability consultancy Pivotal Veracity today announced it has added to its eDesign Optimizer rendering tool the capability for clients to see how their messages will look when viewed using the Firefox Internet browser

• DHL to Slash 9,500 U.S. Jobs

  DHL U.S. Express will cut 9,500 U.S. jobs beginning Jan. 30, in order to meet its financial goals. That

• Listline e-Newsletter 11/11

  DirectInnovations Inc. has been chosen to oversee more than 2 million names on the Advantage Financial Services Responders list, effective
  Nov. 16.