Chief Marketer Staff

• Federal Bill to Combat Telemarketing Fraud Introduced

  Rep. Robert Weygand (D-RI) has introduced a bill to make telemarketing fraud over the Internet a federal crime. The measure (HR-612) would also establish

• CareerTrack’s Closing Has DMers Job Hunting

  CareerTrack Inc., Boulder, which provides corporate training seminars, is leaving its Boulder home base and putting about 30 to 40 direct marketing professionals–mostly

• FedEx to Raise Rates

  Federal Express Corp., Memphis, TN, the world’s largest express delivery service, said it will raise its rates an average of 2.8% for shipments within

• LA Newspaper Group Buys Alt Media Company

  The Los Angeles Times and Garden State Newspapers Inc., have jointly acquired California Independent Postal System (CIPS), a provider of alternative distribution

• Sales Up At Successories

  Domestic catalog sales for Successories, Aurora, IL, increased by 11.4% for the twelve-month fiscal year ended Jan. 30, but sales were down 10.6% for

• Nu Skin to Acquire Big Planet

  Nu Skin Enterprises, Inc. will acquire Big Planet, a Provo, UT-based Internet-based technology company that offers e-commerce and other technology services

• DIRECT Listline

  Santa Claus Online A new list, Santa Claus Online, contains 10,500 Christmas 1998 home addresses. These addresses were collected from a Web site to which

• Wunderman On Board At Intellipost

  Intellipost Corp., San Francisco, added Lester Wunderman, founder of Wunderman Cato Johnson, Tom Newkirk, chairman of Experian Direct Technology Solutions

• Short Cuts

  Margaret Iadeluca has been appointed vice president in the compiled list division of ALC of New York. In another staff change in that division, Charlie

• Providian Expands Space, Workforce

  Providian Financial Corp., San Francisco, will open a new 145,000 square-foot center in Oakland, CA, and hire up to 1,400 employees to keep pace with