GREENWICH, CT: Classic Sportswear & Promotions has appointed professional artist and corporate marketing counselor Catherine Lief as its creative director. Lief will primarily work with marketing teams in the financial, pharmaceutical, sports franchise, entertainment. and food and beverage industries.

NEW YORK: Business Wire's News Express, a proprietary internet platform that delivers multimedia content in NewsML format, has gone live.

SANTA MONICA, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios has hired Trish Halamandaris as VP of worldwide marketing for its consumer products and interactive group. ...