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Jos. A. Bank Clothiers Inc has promoted Gary Merry from senior vice president for operations to executive vice president. He will now will head the firm's store and catalog operations

Today we meet Donna Mallinson, president of List Counsellors Inc., a three-person company in Allentown, NJ, where she does the list brokerage work.

"The word brand is mostly overused," said Christie Hefner, chairman and chief executive officer, Playboy Enterprises. "To me a brand is an attitude about life that is sufficiently strong for the consumer -- that the brand can extend itself from its core product to other products that consumers can self-identify with."

When Peggy Allen and Ronda Pierson were sending their children off to college a couple of years ago, they were appalled at the low quality and wrongly sized sheets available for dormitory beds. This led the pair, both former executives at Lifetime Television, to found an online operation dedicated to this supplying this niche market.

A magazine's editorial staff knows better than anyone what makes a publication great. It's no surprise, then, that a new subscription-building package

NEW LISTS Gevalia SOHO Continuity Buyers Approximately 1.3 million businesspeople who responded to a trial delivery offer for coffee and a free coffeemaker

As CEO Heath Clarke explains it, Local.com got into business to serve a need that wasn't being filled by either the Internet Yellow Pages providers or traditional search engines.

At the risk of offending some readers and others who hold the power to adversely affect my standard of living, it's time to point out some e-mail writing

Quick! What's that illustration? Maybe one of those gruesome X-ray views of your intestines like you see in constipation-remedy mailers? Quick! What's

If you want to make friends, you have to be social. The same theory applies if you want to court customers, says Valerie Fox, vice president of social networking site Gather.com.