Chief Marketer Staff

• Milcron Launches Industrial E-Commerce Site

  Industrial manufacturing equipment company Milacron Inc., based in Cincinnati, has launched an electronic commerce site (http://www.milpro.com) reportedly

• Successories Holiday Web Sales Up 300%: Reports

  Motivational products direct marketer/retailer Successories Inc., based in Aurora, IL, reported that holiday sales volume from its Web site had increased

• USPS Watchers Blast Projected First Quarter Shortfall

  Despite an increase in overall mail volume, the $611 million surplus the U.S. Postal Service posted for the first quarter of Fiscal 1999 was $159 million

• Short Cuts

  Shopping.com, a Web-based discount merchant based in Corona Del Mar, CA, has naming Randall R. Read as the company’s new chairman of the board; Frank

• Boise-Cascade to Run Brand-Building Effort

  Direct marketer/retailer Boise Cascade Office Products Corp., based in Itasca, IL, has launched a brand building campaign.In addition to national placements

• New Congress Brings Changes in USPS Oversight Committees

  As in the US House of Representatives, the Senate is making several minor membership changes in the committee and subcommittee that has oversight jurisdiction

• Network Holdings International Acquires Links Direct

  Network Holdings International, Inc. Fort Lauderdale, FL, has acquired Links Direct, Inc. Links Direct, which was founded in 1996, markets golf products

• DIRECT Listline

  Health Magazine Subscribers Novus Marketing Inc. is the new list manager for the 901,459-name active subscriber list to Health Magazine. The subscribers

• Direct Focus Sales Jump on Strength of Bowflex

  Direct Focus, Inc., Vancouver, WA, had full-year sales of $57.3 million ($88.8 million Cdn), up 188 percent from $19.9 million ($28.4 million Cdn) in

• J.Crew Changes CEO

  J.Crew has named Dick Boyce, a member of its board of directors, chief operating officer of the troubled retail and catalog company. Howard Socol resigned