Chief Marketer Staff

• Marketing Drive Adds Staff

  Marketing Drive Worldwide has hired a handful of new staffers, two of them from Ryan Partnership.

• Agencies

  Choice Hotels Tap Brown to Lead Loyalty Program

  Choice Hotels International has named Greg Brown as vice president of the company’s Choice Privileges rewards program, a new post.

• Agencies

  P&I Postscript

  SHUTTERFLY: an online photo service, now offers gift cards for business-to-business use.

• Netflix Leads Satisfaction Index Again: ForeSee Results

  Netflix is number one in customer satisfaction for the second holiday season in a row, according to customer satisfaction measurement and management firm ForeSee Results.

• Donnelley Marketing Renamed InfoUSA National Accounts

  Donnelley Marketing, the infoUSA unit that provides a variety of marketing services to large national organizations, will move from Woodcliff, NJ to infoUSA

• Visits to Selected Web Sites Up 20% During Holiday Season

  Visits to the commercial Web sites on the Holiday eShopping Index grew 20%, from 459.5 million to 551.6 million, during the week ended Dec. 17

• Wisconsin DM, TV Guide Printer Closes: Reports

  Sunny Industries, a printing company based in Mazomanie, WI that published direct mail pieces, as well TV Guide, closed on Dec. 22, throwing 380 people out of work,

• DMers Call Center Will Bring 220 Jobs to Ohio: Report

  A call center planned by Global Contract Services, an insurance direct marketer, will bring 220 jobs to Lancaster, OH

• Listline e-Newsletter 12/26/06

  Millard Group Inc. has assumed management of the High Country Gardens
  file. This cataloger has 59,000 last-12-month buyers.

• Colangelo Work for U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Breaks First Quarter

  Promotion agency Colangelo will start work for U.S. Smokeless Tobacco in first-quarter 2007.