Industry Eye

ON THE MOVE
Direct Marketing Association: The tradegroup has hired the former Spiegel Brands Vice President of Marketing Neil O’Keefe to the newly created position of vice president, catalog and multichannel merchant segment.

CATALOGERS’ UPDATES
dELiA*s Sells CCS: The catalog/multichannel marketer of apparel, footwear and accessories targeted to teenagers has sold its skateboard footwear, apparel and accessories catalog/multichannel subsidiary, CCS, to Foot Locker for $102 million in cash in a deal scheduled to close this month. CCS’s revenues are expected to exceed $80 million in 2009.