Chief Marketer Staff

• Agencies

  Vertis Gets $250 Million Loan From GE

  Vertis Communications has received a $250 million senior secured plan of reorganization credit facility from GE Commercial Finance.

• Boise Income Hit By Hurricanes, Finance Charges

  Boise Inc. generated $633.1 million in sales, and another $30.1 million in income from operations, during its most recent third quarter.

• Agencies

  M&F Worldwide Income Surges

  M&F Worldwide Corp. posted net income of $20.1 million for the third quarter, a surge over net income of $10.1 million in the prior year.

• Mercury Names Anastas Digital Division President

  Mercury Media Holdings has named Jonathan Anastas president of its digital division.

• Email

  Stupid Translation Watch: Welsh Sign Carries E-mail Auto-Reply

  When a government employee in Wales sent an e-mail to a translator with the English-wording of a sign to be translated into Welsh

• Email

  Stupid Pinhead Watch: SpamZa Boy Defends Himself

  The person behind SpamZa has apparently been trying to post comments on various blogs defending his failed, idiotic scheme to set up a Web site allowing people to input others’ e-mail addresses to be signed up for

• Email

  Stupid PR Watch: Counting Obama’s Chickens

  As editor of now defunct dot-com trade publication iMarketing News in the late nineties and into 2001, I was forever telling reporters not to write glowing prose about companies that could be a source of embarrassment if the firms were to go belly up.

• Email

  AOL Sued for E-mail Ads

  A California man has filed a class-action suit against AOL for allegedly including text e-mail ads in the footers of paid subscribers’ outgoing messages.

• Listline e-Newsletter 11/04

  Macromark Inc. has been appointed manager of a list of 208,255 names from Instinct Magazine, including 96,051 active subscribers.

• Agencies

  Starbucks, Krispy Kreme Give Freebies to Voters

  Voting may be a privilege and a civic duty, but this year it can also be delicious.