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  Three new vice presidents have been hired by Draftworldwide at Vogt/Wein, an integrated communications agency it owns in Westport, CT. Stephanie Pelletier

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  Two new employees have been hired by Names and Addresses Inc., Wheeling, IL. Dave Swift has been appointed as senior account manager in the brokerage

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  Cook Marketing Communications, Jacksonville, FL, has appointed Terry Chancellor as manager of Cook Marketing Direct, a new Cook subsidiary that will offer

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  Direct Focus Inc., Portland, OR, named C. Rowland Hanson to its board of directors. Hanson is the managing member of CRH and Associates, a consulting

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  Cataloger Sharper Image Corp., based in San Francisco, will change its financial reporting schedule from monthly to quarterly beginning with its third

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  Online music shop CDNow Inc., which plans to merge with music continuity marketer Columbia House, has named Scott Flanders chairman/CEO of the combined

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  Marketing Services Group Inc. , a New York-based direct marketing services company, has completed the final closing on a private placement of common stock

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  Experian, Orange, CA, has launched List OnLine, a service for ordering consumer demographic and business lists through the company’s Web site (http://www.experian.com)

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  Cybuy, a New York-based provider of e-commerce solutions for merchants, has named former IBM executive Ruth P. Stevens senior vice president of direct

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  Staples Inc. promoted Michael J. Ragunas to vice president of information systems and Kevin B. Dempsey to vice president of merchandising at Staples.com.