Hanover Direct Adds New Director Designated by Chelsey Direct, LLC

Hanover Direct Adds New Director Designated by Chelsey Direct,
LLC 


EDGEWATER, N.J., April 12  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Hanover Direct, Inc. today
announced that Paul S. Goodman, the Chief Executive Officer of Chelsey
BroadcastingCompany, LLC, has joined the Company's Board of Directors effective
April 12, 2004 as a designee of Chelsey Direct, LLC, filling the vacancy created
by the resignation of Martin L. Edelman effective February 15, 2004.  "On behalf
of the Board of Directors," said Tom Shull, Chairman, President and Chief
Executive Officer of Hanover Direct, "I welcome Mr. Goodman to the Board and the
Company."

Mr. Goodman has been the Chief Executive Officer of Chelsey Broadcasting
Company, the owner of middle market network-affiliated television stations,
since January 2003.  Mr. Goodman served as a director of Benedek Broadcasting
Corporation from November 1994 to October 2002 and as a director of Benedek
Communications Corporation from its formation in 1996 to October 2002.  Mr.
Goodman was also corporate counsel to Benedek Broadcasting from 1983 to October
2002 and corporate counsel to Benedek Communications from 1996 until October
2002.  From April 1993 to December 2002, Mr. Goodman was a member of the law
firm of Shack Siegel Katz Flaherty & Goodman, P.C.

About Hanover Direct, Inc.

Hanover Direct, Inc. (AMEX:HNV) and its business units provide quality, branded
merchandise through a portfolio of catalogs and e-commerce platforms to
consumers, as well as acomprehensive range of Internet, e-commerce and
fulfillment services to businesses.  The Company's catalog and web site
portfolio of home fashions, apparel and gift brands include Domestications, The
Company Store, Company Kids, Silhouettes, International Male, Scandia Down and
Gump's By Mail.  The Company owns Gump's, a retail store based in San Francisco.
 Each brand can be accessed on the Internet individually by name. Keystone
Internet Services, LLC (http://www.keystoneinternet.com/), the Company's third
party fulfillment operation, also provides the logistical, IT and fulfillment
needs of the Company's catalogs and web sites.  Information on Hanover Direct,
including each of its subsidiaries, can be accessed on the Internet at
http://www.hanoverdirect.com/. 

DATASOURCE: Hanover Direct, Inc.



CONTACT:  Charles E. Blue, S.V.P. & Chief Financial Officer, Hanover

Direct, Inc., [phone]; Rich Tauberman of MWW Group,

[phone], for Hanover Direct



Web site:  http://www.hanoverdirect.com/ 

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