Chief Marketer Staff

• House Panel OK’s Bill To Allow Financial Cross Marketing

  The House Finance Committee Thursday approved a bill that would permit holding companies with less than a 25% stake in a bank, credit union or other financial service company to cross market to each other’s customers.

• Short Cuts

  Priceline.com and One Travel.com have formed a marketing agreement where priceline.com will build and operate a Name Your Own Price booking engine on

• Go Daddy Sues VeriSign

  Domain name registrar Go Daddy Software Inc. is suing VeriSign Inc. for allegedly deceiving rivals’ customers into transferring their business, according

• DIRECT Listline

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• Mail Stream: A Report on Incoming Direct Mail

  Caribou Coffee The origin and growth of the ten-year old specialty coffee retailer Caribou Coffee bears a great deal of similarity to its competitor Starbucks.

• Product Mix Changes Boost Sharper Image’s Catalog Revenue

  Strong catalog and Internet sales boosted Sharper Image Corp.

• 24/7 Real Media Stock Moves to Nasdaq SmallCap Market

  Market to the SmallCap Market Thursday. The online media services company’s stock will continue trading under its current symbol TFSM.

• Spiegel DM Sales Drop 27% In May

  The Spiegel Group reported sales of $169.9 million for the four weeks ended May 25, a 24% decrease from $223 million for the same period last year.

• First Data Acquires E Commerce Group

  First Data Corp. will acquire E Commerce Group Inc. a New York-based electronic billing company, for an undisclosed sum.

• J.C. Penney Catalog Sales Fall 19.1% In May

  J. C. Penney Co. Inc. reported catalog sales of $178 million for the four weeks ended May 25, a 19.1% decrease from $220 million for the same period last year.