Chief Marketer Staff

• Hanover Puts Non-Core Titles on the Block

  (Catalog Age) For starters, the multi-title mailer announced a recapitalization agreement with Chelsey Direct that is expected to close Dec. 17. Chelsey

• Hall Dickler Defection Followed Merger Talks

  Last week’s departure of 10 lawyers from Hall Dickler Kent Goldstein & Wood to Manatt, Phelps & Phillips followed failed merger talks between the firms.

• Toshiba Inks Deal with NY Jets

  Toshiba America Consumer Products has entered a sponsorship agreement with the New York Jets for the 2003-2004 season. In addition to guest appearances

• Ranking Democrats Blast USPS on NP Rule

  At least one mailer group hopes Congressional opposition to the U.S. Postal Service’s nonprofit cooperative mailing rules will help derail their implementation

• Short Cuts

  Joe Cupani has joined LLKFB, a direct marketing communication company in New York, as executive vice president and chief creative officer. Cupani had

• McDonald’s Tests McCaf Coffeehouses

  McDonald’s Corp. last week opened the first of seven McCaf coffee shops inside McDonald’s restaurants in Raleigh, NC, and San Francisco. Big Mac hopes

• Diageo Under Fire for $40 Million Tax Break

  A firestorm is brewing over the more than $40 million state tax break Diageo will receive as an incentive to move its North American headquarters from

• DNC List Unconstitutional Telemarketers Tell Appeals Court

  A national do-not-call list is justified by the public’s frustration with telemarketers and its right to privacy, government lawyers argued before a federal

• News Briefs

  LEGO: is holding a nationwide contest in which kids between the ages of six and 17 have 45 minutes to build something with 2,000 bricks based on a theme

• Mail Stream: A Report on Incoming Direct Mail

  The first true catalog effort from Linens-N-Things recently arrived, trumpeting the convenience of home delivery over retail shopping.