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TABLE OF CONTENTS
  • Difficult First Quarter for Gander Mountain Despite DM Sales
  • InfoGroup Merges Market Research Businesses
  • Sephora Extends Digital Services Contract with Acxiom
  • Pharmagistics Hires Roseanne Branciforte As Managing Director
  • Short Cuts
  • Letters to the Editor
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    Top Stories
    Difficult First Quarter for Gander Mountain Despite DM Sales
    Gander Mountain Co., a hunting, fishing, boating and outdoor products marketer, reported a first-quarter loss of $24.4 million on sales of $207.7 million. What contributed to the loss – and how did DM mitigate it? Click here for details: directmag.com/financial/gander-mountain-quarter-dm-0604/

    InfoGroup Merges Market Research Businesses
    InfoGroup has combined two of its market research businesses. Effective immediately, both Guideline, infoGroup’s customized business research and analysis operations, and Opinion Research Corp., its polling unit, will be run by Gerard Miodus, who was president of Opinion Research. For details, click here: directmag.com/datalist/infogroup-market-research-merge-0604/

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    Sephora Extends Digital Services Contract with Acxiom
    Sephora has extended its contract with Acxiom for an additional two years. Acxiom provides the beauty products marketer with a variety of integrated digital marketing offerings. For details, click here: directmag.com/email/sephora-digital-acxiom-contract-0603/

    Pharmagistics Hires Roseanne Branciforte As Managing Director
    Roseanne Branciforte has joined Pharmagistics as managing director. Branciforte has held executive positions Dexcel Pharma Technologies, inVentiv Health, Metagen Pharmaceuticals, and, most recently, Esprit Pharma, where she served as Senior VP of Operations.

    As co-founder and President of Metagen, Roseanne played a key role in the company’s commercial success and was responsible for its 2005 merger with Esprit Pharma.

    Pharmagistics, which offers direct marketing, PDMA compliance and specialty logistics for the biopharmaceutical industry, is a Publicis Healthcare Communications Group company.

    Short Cuts
    The Wilde Companies (also known as W.A. Wilde have launched Wilde Interactive. The division provides a variety of strategic interactive, on-line marketing and e-business competencies. Wilde Interactive chairman Tom Wilde will be joined by Neal Boornazian, who will serve as the division’s president and CEO, and Jonathan Sriberg, who has been hired as VP of strategy and account services. Boornazian was previously employed at L'Oreal, Revlon and Envisa, among others; Sriberg held a variety of senior roles at the Internet Solutions/Technology divisions of Digitas and One to One Interactive.

    Marketing services firm Quaero, has appointed Michelle Boockoff-Bajdek to serve as VP of marketing. Boockoff-Bajdek will lead the firm’s marketing/branding efforts. Prior to joining Quaero, Boockoff-Bajdek was VP of marketing for Harte-Hanks. She has also served as director of marketing communications for GN Netcom, and has held management positions at Kronos Inc., Axis Communications Inc., and Micro Warehouse, Inc.

    Letters to the Editor
    (Re: Loose Cannon: Two Young Men Meet The Wizard From Oz, Direct Newsline, Monday, June 2, 2008: directmag.com/opinions-columnists/loosecannon/loose-cannon-two-young-men-oz-0601/)

    Ahhh, the Wall Street Journal! How I lusted to be written about in those hallowed pages. I, who have been quoted in the New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times, Chicago Tribune, the New York Sun, Entrepreneur, Forbes, DIRECT and 100 other publications, have not reached the Mecca of press hogs -– Thee (sic) Wall Street Journal.

    I, the renegade flying monkey of the wicked witch, oh-so-near to the Oz of the publishing world only to find it being purchased by Rupert of the Right, the Intellectually (but not financially) Challenged One who believes that balance involves cutting off the other side of the scale.

    Darn -- I knew I should have done that interview with the Weekly World News before it folded!

    Not that I have an opinion.

    Mark Amtower
    Highland MD
    www.FederalDirect.com


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    List and Database News
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    Frank Cawood Health Book Buyers PIP
    Frank Cawood & Associates Inc. is offering a test for a new package insert program that targets health book buyers. Up to six inserts will be collated inside a 6 by 9 inch envelope for shipment with 5,000 packages in September and October. The roll out potential is 1.2 million packages annually.
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