Month: June 2006

• Pier 1 Losses Mount in Quarter

  Pier 1 Imports reported a net loss of $23.2 million for the first quarter compared to a net loss of $12.5 million last year.

• TeleTech Holdings Acquires Direct Alliance

  TeleTech Holdings, a business process outsourcing provider, will acquire Direct Alliance Corp., an e-commerce systems developer.

• West Corp. to Add Jobs at Florida Call Center

  West Corp. plans to add 300 new jobs at its Pensacola, FL call center, according to the Pensacola News Journal.

• FTC Settles With ‘Credit Counseling Service’

  A credit counseling service and related companies and individuals have agreed to pay $926,754 in consumer redress and civil penalties to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they made false claims about their debt management program and violated the FTC

• Iseemedia Closes Acquisition of RealBiz360

  Iseemedia Inc., a developer of online rich media content, it has closed its acquisition of RealBiz360.

• DMA Discontinues InMarketing Magazine

  The Direct Marketing Association has discontinued InMarketing, its 12-times-a-year house publication. The June issue will be its last.

• Agencies

  I Am Your Monkey, Walt Disney

  I’M JUST AS CYNICAL AS THE next gal. But when it comes to my kids, I’m as big a pile of manipulatable mush as you’ll ever find. My oldest son Jacob is

• Agencies

  Shed No Tears for Blue Security

  THE ENTIRE DIRECT MARKETING industry should stand up and applaud the mid-May demise of anti-spam concern Blue Security. And not just because the company’s

• Agencies

  DM Growth Falls in First Quarter

  DIRECT MARKETING GROWTH flagged in the first quarter of 2006, dropping below the last two years’ robust levels, according to the Direct Marketing Association’s

• Agencies

  The Zoo Story

  AFTER NEARLY TWO YEARS about as long as an Asian elephant’s gestation period Seattle’s Woodland Park Zoo is back in the mail with a 125,000-piece membership