Barton Faber, the former chairman and CEO of Metromail, has joined the board of directors of AdForce, a centralized online ad management service. Faber is currently chairman/CEO of Faber Capital.
Creative Computers Inc., the parent company of online auctioneer uBid Inc., will distribute its remaining holdings in uBid to shareholders in June, completing a spinoff announced last year. Specifically, Creative will distribute 7.3 million shares that it holds in uBid on June 7 to shareholders of record May 24. Owners will receive seven tenths of a share of uBid stock for every Creative Computers share held, based on common stock now outstanding.
Computer direct marketer Global DirectMail Corp., Port Washington, NY, has begun trading as Systemax Inc. with its New York Stock Exchange trading symbol changing from GML to SYX and the corporate web site changing from www.globaldirectmail.com to www.systemax.com.
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