Chief Marketer Staff

• GMR Taps Connelly as President

  GMR Marketing has promoted Craig Connelly to president of the event-marketing shop. Craig Connelly Gary Reynolds had been president and CEO and will remain

• U.S., U.K. Lawmakers Address Obesity, Kids Marketing

  Food marketers will not be held liable for consumer obesity if a bill now before the U.S. Senate becomes law. Meanwhile, the U.K. Board of the Food Standards

• Entertainment Marketing Layoffs Follow Brown-Forman Loss

  Chicago agency Entertainment Marketing, Inc. laid off more than two-thirds of its staff last week after losing its core client, Brown-Forman Corp., which

• NYU Presents Customer Acquisition Panel

  New York University’s master’s program in direct and interactive marketing will present a panel on the challenges of customer acquisition on Wednesday,

• Blattner Brunner Promotes Oprison

  Pittsburgh-based agency Blattner Brunner has promoted Rich Oprison to vice president of strategic services, adding to his previous title of director of

• Joint Congressional Hearing on USPS Set for Tuesday

  The Senate Governmental Affairs and House Government Reform Committees will hold a joint public hearing on reform of the U.S. Postal Service on Tuesday,

• List and Database News

  Daltran Direct-Business Interest Respondents Kroll Direct Marketing Inc. is now managing this file of 310,926 opt-in respondents to this business related

• FTC/DOJ Halt AOL/Paypal Identity Theft Scam

  A joint initiative by the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice has shut down a spam operation that posed as America Online and Paypal

• Epsilon Names Carino VP of Commercial Sales

  Epsilon, a relationship marketing company, has named George Carino vice president of commercial sales. Carino moves up from his post as the Wakefield,

• Letters to the Editor

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