Chief Marketer Staff

• DMers in India

  A 7,000-name list of members and potential members of the Direct Marketing Association, India is available. It includes current, former, named and unnamed

• FCB Acquires CM Partners

  Chicago advertising agency Foote, Cone & Belding, a subsidiary of True North Communications Inc., has acquired CM Partners, a Rolling Meadows, IL-based

• Fingerhut Closes On Bedford Fair

  Fingerhut Companies Inc., Minneapolis, completed the acquisition of Bedford Fair. Fingerhut is a direct response database marketing company selling a

• Management Changes At Lands’ End

  Bradley K. Johnson, senior vice president, chief administrative and financial officer, Lands’ End Inc., Dodgeville, WI, has resigned “to pursue other

• Despite Settlement, Cendant Still Faces Common Stock Class Action Suit

  Cendant Corp., the firm created from the merger of Parsippany, NJ-based franchiser HFS Inc. and membership package service vendor CUC International Inc.,

• Gateway Settles With FTC

  Gateway 2000, the nation’s largest manufacturer and direct marketer of computers and related products, will pay $290,000 to resolve allegations of false

• Reader’s Digest Declares Quarterly Dividend

  Reader’s Digest, Pleasantville, NY, declared a quarterly dividend of five cents on each share of Class A nonvoting and Class B voting common stock. The

• Short Cuts

  The board of directors of Tempe, AZ-based computer direct marketer Insight Enterprises, Inc. has approved a three-for-two stock split of the firm’s common

• DIRECT Listline

  Skin-Care Products Buyers This is a file of 1.5 million 12-month buyers of Garden Botanika skin-care and other personal care products. They are professional

• Newsletter Lists The Highest Priced: Study

  Newsletters are the highest-priced list category, according to Worldata’s recently released December List Price Index, comparing December 1998 list prices