Harte-Hanks Announces Promotion of Jeannine Falcone to Corporate Vice President Falcone will continue to lead The Agency at Harte-Hanks, a full-service, multichannel relationship marketing agency specializing in direct and digital communications

SAN ANTONIO, Oct 30, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Harte-Hanks, Inc. (NYSE:HHS), a worldwide direct and targeted marketing company, today announced that Jeannine Falcone has been promoted to corporate Vice President, with responsibility for leading The Agency at Harte-Hanks.

Falcone has been with Harte-Hanks for over 16 years and has served as Managing Director for the Agency since 2007. Throughout her tenure with the company, she has worked in key roles in Account Services and served clients in multiple industries. Prior to joining Harte-Hanks, Falcone was an Account Executive with DiMark, Inc., a provider of marketing and database services based in Langhorne, Pennsylvania which was acquired by Harte-Hanks in April 1996. Falcone earned her Bachelor's Degree in Marketing in 1988 from West Chester University of Pennsylvania.

Gary Skidmore, President of Harte-Hanks Direct Marketing, said, "Jeannine's leadership has been instrumental in helping our clients execute effective, data-driven, multi-channel marketing solutions across a variety of industries.

Under her leadership, our capabilities to deliver digital marketing programs have significantly increased. We are confident she will continue to make strong contributions to our company and to our clients worldwide." The Agency at Harte-Hanks is a full-service, multichannel relationship marketing agency specializing in direct and digital communications. With award-winning strategy, creative and implementation services, Harte-Hanks helps marketers within targeted industries understand, identify, and engage prospects and customers in their channel of choice. The Agency serves customers from the pharmaceutical, financial services, insurance and automotive industries and leading consumer brands. The Agency's mission is to deploy world-class, data-driven, multichannel relationship marketing programs that address each client's acquisition, cross-sell, retention and loyalty needs.

About Harte-Hanks Harte-Hanks(R) is a worldwide, direct and targeted marketing company that provides direct marketing services and shopper advertising opportunities to local, regional, national and international consumer and business-to-business marketers. Harte-Hanks Direct Marketing improves return on its clients' marketing investment by increasing their prospect and customer value through solutions and services organized around five groupings of integrated activities: Information (data collection/management) -- Opportunity (data access/utilization) -- Insight (data analysis/interpretation) -- Engagement (program and campaign creation and development) -- Interaction (program execution). Harte-Hanks Shoppers is North America's largest owner, operator and distributor of shopper publications, with shoppers that are zoned into more than 950 separate editions with approximately 11.5 million circulation each week in California and Florida. Harte-Hanks Shoppers brings buyers and sellers together at a local level, helping businesses and individuals get results from targeted, local advertisements, both through Shoppers' printed publications and online through the PennySaverUSA.com(TM) and TheFlyer.com(TM) websites. Visit the Harte-Hanks Web site at http://www.harte-hanks.com.

For more information, contact Doug Shepard, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, at 210-829-9120 or e-mail at [e-mail].

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