Chief Marketer Staff

• Listline e-Newsletter 09/07/06

  Walter Karl Inc. has been appointed to manage the Brides to Be catalog
  buyers list. It consists of 161,457 last-12-month buyers.

• Agencies

  Spiegel Brands Acquires Two Catalogs

  Golden Gate Capital, parent company of cataloger Spiegel Brands Inc., has acquired Carabella Corp. and its Carabella and A.B. Lambdin catalogs.

• Agencies

  Spam Conviction Upheld

  The Court of Appeals of Virginia has upheld the first conviction under a state law that makes spamming a felony.

• Agencies

  Escrow Contribution Drives Up USPS July Loss

  The U.S. Postal Service posted a net loss of $268 million for July. When taking into account a $250 million monthly escrow allocation, the net loss was $518 million.

• Agencies

  William McNutt, Collin Street Chairman, Dies at 81

  L. William “Bill” McNutt Jr., chairman of the Collin Street Bakery, died Friday at his home in Corsicana, TX of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, according to wire service reports. He was 81.

• 2006 Silver Apple Award Winners Named

  The Direct Marketing Club of New York awarded six individuals and one company its 2006 Silver Apple Awards for outstanding contributions to the direct marketing industry.

• Agencies

  AirportParkingReservations.com Taps Crossbow Group

  AirportParkingReservations.com, a Web site that helps guarantee airport parking space for U.S. travelers, has chosen Crossbow Group to develop and manage its paid search effort.

• PacificNet Names Levinson CFO

  PacificNet Inc. has named Joseph Levinson chief financial officer.

• Bud.TV to Air Webisodes, Sports, Even a Live Dating Game

  Anheuser-Busch is launching an Internet-based entertainment network targeting its core market young, legal drinking age males.

• Agencies

  Macy’s Ads, Events Tout Its National Conversion

  Macy’s breaks its first national ads and a slate of local events as 400 regional department stores convert to the Macy’s name this weekend.