Chief Marketer Staff

• List and Database News

  U.S. Residential Telephone Connect Database MKTG Services has won management of this file of 10 million individuals who have connected their residential

• JoS. A. Bank Has Strong Holiday Sales

  JoS. A. Bank Clothiers Inc. reported that, despite snowstorms along the East Coast, it had exceeded management

• Peet’s Coffee & Tea Appoints New Chairman

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• Inventive Solutions to Debut Catalog, Web Site in January

  Inventive Solutions, Inc., a gadget wholesaler, will launch an Internet store at www.einventive.com and a catalog division in January. Currently, the

• Loose Cannon: Twelve Quatrains on Four Quarters

  Longtime readers of The New Yorker will likely remember Roger Angell’s end-of-the-year poem, which boiled down the events of the previous 12 months into

• Lands’ End to Bow Out of Manufacturing

  (Catalog Age) Lands’ End plans to close its only manufacturing plants, in Elkader and West Union, IA, effective April 1. The plants produce luggage, duffel

• FTC Wins Order Against Domain-Name Services Firm

  A Canadian company will pay redress and alter its marketing practices to settle a Federal Trade Commission complaint that it misled consumers. Domain

• List and Database News

  Relix Magazine VentureDirect Worldwide is offering the Relix magazine subscriber list. It contains the names of 16,575 active subs. These readers are

• Letters to the Editor

  [Re: “Loose Cannon: Postal Workers Are As Mad As Hell And Are Not Going to Take It Anymore,” Direct Newsline, Dec. 15, 2003, and “Letters to the Editor,”

• 21st Century Wins TigerDirectFile

  Management of the TigerDirect masterfile has returned to 21st Century Marketing Inc. The file includes the names of nearly 5 million consumers who have