Chief Marketer Staff

• DM Management Secures Investment Capital

  DM Management Company, Hingham, MA, has secured a $12 million first mortgage loan from John Hancock Real Estate Finance, Inc. The financing will be used

• F.Y.I. Acquires Two DM Companies

  F.Y.I. Inc., Dallas, has acquired two direct marketing and printing firms: Sacramento, CA-based TCH Group, and Advanced Digital Graphics, Inc. (ADG) located

• 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

• 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

• Catalina Buys DCI Cardmarketing

  Catalina Marketing Corp., St. Petersburg, FL, acquired DCI Cardmarketing, Manasquan, NJ, a specialist in retail card-based loyalty marketing programs.

• House Postal Panel Changes Won’t Affect Reform: Experts

  Minor changes in House postal subcommittee membership are not expected to cause any major delays in passage of postal reform legislation, Congress watchers

• Diet and Fitness Dominate Top-Grossing Infomercials

  Half of the top ten grossing infomercials for 1998 fall within the diet and fitness category, according to the annual ranking released by The Infomercial

• AOL Members Spent $1.2B in Online Holiday Shopping

  America Online Inc. said its members spent over $1 billion with online retailers available through AOL during the nearly six weeks of the 1998 holiday

• Columbia House Sells Audiobook Club to Audio Book Club

  The Columbia House Co., New York, has sold the Columbia House Audiobook Club to rival Audio Book Club Inc. of Boca Raton, FL and Morristown, NJ.Financial

• DIRECT Listline

  Women with Families This compiled file contains 150,304 working women with children. Individuals within the file have responded via direct mail to publishing,