Theodore Deikel, Marketing company executive. Named Direct Marketer of Year, Midwest Direct Marketing Association, 1987; recipient Human Relations award Music and Performing Arts division Anti-Defamation League, 1981; American Can/Take a Taxi on Us Day proclaimed by Mayor of Minneapolis, 1979, Take a Taxi on Us Month proclaimed by Governor of Minnesota, December, 1979.
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Career
Owner direct mail operation, 1961-1963;
chairman, chief Executive officer, Fingerhut Corporation, 1963-1983;
president, Fingerhut Corporation, 1974;
president, chief Executive officer, Fingerhut Corporation, 1975;
Chairman, Board Of Directors, president, chief Executive officer, Fingerhut Corporation, 1978;
chairman, chief Executive officer, Pickwick International, Inc., 1979-1983;
executive vice president, American Can Company, 1979-1983;
senior vice president, sector executive distribution and specialty retailing, American Can Company, 1979-1981;
chairman, chief Executive officer, Fingerhut Corporation subsidiary American Canada Company
chairman, chief Executive officer, Musicland Group subsidiary American Canada Company
chairman, chief Executive officer, Pickwick Distribution Companies subsidiary American Canada Company
chairman, chief Executive officer, CVN Companies (formerly COMB Company)., 1985-1989;
Chairman of the Board, chief Executive officer, Fingerhut Companies, since 1989.
Achievements
Theodore Deikel has been listed as a noteworthy Marketing company executive by Marquis Who's Who.
Membership
Appointed to Commision on Education for Economics Growth, Governor State of Missouri. Founder Take a Taxi on Us Program, since 1979. Member of national advising committee Hubert H. Humphrey Cancer Research Center Boston University Medical Center.
Appointed member Governor's Loaned Executive Program Minnesota, Commision on Education for Economics Growth. Trustee, member building and grounds committee Blake School. Past board directors Guthrie Theater, Mount Sinai Hospital, Minnesota.
