Card Briefs: Hubco Unit to Run Barmami Stores' Cards

Shoppers Charge Accounts Co. said it will start and administer a private-label credit card program for upscale women's apparel manufacturer and retailer Barami Enterprises Inc.

New York-based Barami has 32 stores in 11 states and in Washington, D.C.

Shoppers Charge acquires receivables from retailers' private-label card accounts and develops card programs for merchants who don't have them. The unit of Hubco, a New Jersey-based banking company, says it is the 11th- largest private-label card company.

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