On Nov. 3, Minneapolis-based Fingerhut Cos. announced plans to acquire $180 million Garfield, NJ-based Popular Club Plan from J. Crew Group for an undisclosed

New law requires switch from opt-out to opt-inBeginning in June, marketers’ access to information compiled by state departments of motor vehicles (DMVs)

More than 60% of U.S. consumers will own personal computers by the end of 2000, compared to 53% this year, according to Ziff-Davis’s annual Technology

Advertiser eagerness to place blow-in cards in U.S. Cavalry’s catalog nearly led to a fight between two brokers, according to Carmen Shelton, list/circulation

The Middle East might seem an unlikely market for general merchandiser Spiegel to test. But Scott Weiler, director of business development and promotion

So far, it’s hard to tell if e-lists are worth the price – or the troubleAs more Internet-savvy consumers buy goods online, more catalogers are anxious

Stan Werbin, owner of Lansing, MI-based Elderly Instruments, remembers when competition among retail and catalog marketers of musical instruments in regional

Count Nordstrom as another marketer that believes in the power of “.com.” The department store retailer/cataloger announced in August the creation of

When Venator Group, the $6.6 billion New York-based sporting goods retailer, announced its intention to exit eight noncore businesses, at least one of