Holiday highlights
According to the National Retail Federation (NRF), 2006 holiday sales were up 4.4% from 2005. Whether that’s good news or bad depends on what you’d been
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Women’s apparel buyers return
After a bit of a lull, women’s apparel buyers got busy placing orders again. For the third quarter of 2006, the names of 33.3 million 12-month buyers
Green beings
Around the time that the trade press was following the cliffhanger-worthy passage of the postal reform bill in Congress (see our coverage on page 7),
Still waiting for the holiday rush
As multichannel merchants entered the holiday shopping season in earnest, Catalog Tracker received 522 consumer catalogs in October. That’s up 26% from
Waiting with an open mailbox
Surveys and studies consistently show that print catalogs are one of the most effective ways of driving Web sales. But judging from the Catalog Tracker
Gone to the Dogs
In honor of the holidays, and as a break from all the M&A news (R.R. Donnelley buying Banta, infoUSA buying Rubin Response, Golden Gate buying everyone
Critical issues and trends
At first glance, the financial picture for the respondents to Multichannel Merchant’s Benchmark Survey on Critical Issues and Trends looks rosy. Seventy-one
Growth spurt for kids’ market
The baby boomers are all grown up, but that’s not stopping them and their offspring from buying children’s merchandise via mail. According to New York-based