Movers & shakers

Bensalem, PA-based plus-size women's clothing merchant Charming Shoppes has appointed Michael W. Luce to its board of directors. Luce is the president of cataloger Plow & Hearth.

Office supplies cataloger/retailer Staples has named Carole Johnson senior vice president of advertising. She will develop all marketing communications for the Framingham, MA-based company's U.S. and Canadian businesses. Johnson was previously vice president of marketing for AAi.FosterGrant.

Jeffrey Lasher has joined Corporate Express, a Broomfield, CO-based supplier of office products, as vice president, controller. He was previously vice president of finance at AutoNation.

HSN.com in St. Petersburg, FL, promoted Kris Kulesza from senior vice president of online merchandising to executive vice president. Matthew Siegel was named vice president of e-tail strategy; he had been vice president of product management. And Jon Kapplow was promoted from director of multichannel marketing to vice president of multichannel marketing.

John Holowko Jr. was named chief financial officer of New York-based cataloger/retailer Delia's. He was previously senior vice president of finance of Alloy, from which Delia's spun off in December.

Fleetwood, PA-based men's apparel cataloger Paul Fredrick MenStyle has promoted Scott Drayer to director of marketing. Drayer, who has been with Paul Fredrick for six years, had served as marketing manager for catalog and other offline programs.

Hackensack, NJ-based list firm Mokrynskidirect has promoted Jody Smith from sales executive, insert media management, to senior sales executive, insert media management. Smith joined the company's insert media division in January 2003.