Sullivan Named to Head Macy’s West / Bullock’s

Jeremiah J. Sullivan was named Wednesday to the new position of president and chief operating officer of the Macy’s West/Bullock’s division of Federated Department Stores.

Sullivan, 55, has been president and chief operating officer of the Lazarus division of Cincinnati-based Federated since 1989. He will join a San Francisco-based staff headed by Michael Steinberg, chairman and chief executive of a group including 36 Macy’s and 20 Bullock’s department stores.

As president, Sullivan will manage the execution of a six-year, $550-million plan to build, renovate and convert stores. Among the changes, six I. Magnin stores are to become Macy’s and Bullock’s stores.

He will also oversee major renovations at Bullock’s in Woodland Hills and three other stores, and will manage store construction.

* MCI said it has hired Scott Kurnit, executive vice president of Prodigy, to head the long-distance phone company’s new on-line services unit.

As head of MCI Information Services Co., Kurnit will oversee several hundred employees operating the Internet access service, World Wide Web site and on-line shopping area.

He will also direct the new-media venture between MCI and the Public Broadcasting Service that was announced last week.

* Deutsche Telekom, Europe’s biggest telecommunications group, said it has chosen Ron Sommer, president of Sony Europe, to be its chief executive.

The announcement ends months of speculation as to who would succeed Helmut Ricke, who resigned unexpectedly in December. Ricke led Telekom’s transformation from a stuffy state bureaucracy to its inclusion in the commercial register this year, and oversaw reconstruction of the former East Germany’s telephone system.

* Computer Sciences Corp. said Chief Executive William Hoover will retire today.

He is being succeeded by Van B. Honeycutt, company’s president and chief operating officer. The 65-year-old Hoover, who has been chairman and chief executive since 1972, will keep the chairman’s title.

Honeycutt, 50, has been president and chief operating officer since June, 1993.

* Bruce Feldman, Universal Pictures’ senior vice president of marketing/national publicity and promotion for the past two years, will step down when his contract expires at the end of April, the studio announced Wednesday.

The executive will serve as a marketing consultant to Universal on Spike Lee’s “Clockers,” Amblin’s “To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar,” “Babe: the Gallant Pig” and the Christmas release “How to Make an American Quilt.”

Feldman said the move was precipitated by the arrival of Universal marketing president Buffy Shutt and executive vice president Kathy Jones, who came from TriStar Pictures last October to replace Perry Katz.

“After months of discussion, it became clear that I was unable to fit into the new framework,” said Feldman, a principal in the publicity firm of Clein and Feldman from 1981 to 1989. “Still, we’ve known each other for 15 years and there’s nothing acrimonious.”