Short Cuts

Hanover Direct, Inc., Weehawken, NJ, has promoted Jeff Potts to senior vice president of e-commerce New Ventures, and Anita Iodice has been moved up to the position of president of The Company Store catalog. Steven Goldberg has joined the cataloger as president for upscale home fashions, overseeing The Company Store, Turiya and Scandia Down, Kitchen & Home and American Down and Textile Worldwide.

Winterberry Group, New York, has opened an office in Los Angeles. Ben Mendelson, a veteran of the entertainment and Internet industries, will direct the operations as vice president, Internet strategies.

Harte-Hanks Inc., San Antonio, TX, has acquired UK-based Hi-Tech Marketing Limited, a pan-European provider of response management services to the technology, telecommunications and financial services industries. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.