Chief Marketer Staff

• Group 1 Earnings Up, New DB Marketing Contracts Signed

  Group 1 Software, Lanham, MD, had third-quarter revenue of 18.0 million, up from $15.9 million. Net earnings increased from $379,000 in third-quarter

• Proteam.com Sells Institutional/B-to-B Catalogs

  Proteam.com Inc., Secaucus, NJ has sold its four Institutional/Business-to-Business catalog titles, including Sportime, Senior Products, Abilitations

• Sharper Image Proprietary Products Bring Record 4Q

  Sharper Image Corp., San Francisco, had fourth quarter sales of 110.5 million, up 15% from fourth-quarter 1997’s $95.7 million. Comparable store sales

• Sportsman’s Guide to Rely More Heavily on Internet Sales

  Internet sales for The Sportsman’s Guide, Inc., South St. Paul, MN, represented 2.1% of the its total January sales, an increase over the 1.5% reported

• Live From Chicago: Direct From Wunderman

  DM master Lester Wunderman stopped just short yesterday of saying what his new business will be.In a wide-ranging talk that could hardly have reassured

• New Clients Boost TeleTech’s 1998 Revenue

  TeleTech Holdings Inc., Denver, had net income of $5.5 million for the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31, 1998, up 13% from fourth quarter 1997’s net income

• CompUSA Names Head of DM Business

  Computer retailer CompUSA Inc., Dallas, has appointed Stephen Polley as chairman/CEO of CompUSA Direct, its mail order and Internet business. Polley,

• Live From Chicago: Marketer in Chief

  “I look at politics as shaping culture … we have a premier marketer in the White House,” said Bruce I. Newman, associate marketing professor at DePaul

• Federated to Buy Fingerhut

  Federated Department Stores Inc., Cincinnati, will buy Fingerhut Cos. Inc., Minneapolis, for $1.7 billion. The acquisition will allow Federated to expand

• Canada’s Suncom Buys CallDirect

  Suncom Telecommunications Inc., Vancouver, British Columbia, has signed an agreement to acquire CallDirect Enterprises Inc. from CallDirect Capital Corp.,