Small Parcel Shippers Shocked by USPS Rate Hike
Small Parcel Shippers Shocked by USPS Rate Hike AmeriMark and Movies Unlimited and Miles Kimble...
Recycling Choices For the Greener Good
Recycling Choices For the Greener Good How to choose the right mix of recycled paper for your catalog...
Lane Bryant Back in Catalog Biz
Charming Shoppes Puts Lane Bryant Back in the Mail Gayle Coolick Lane Bryant...
Geerlings & Wade Catalog Sold
Wine merchant Geerlings & Wade has sold its catalog to an undisclosed buyer. The new owner will continue to operate the Geerlings & Wade brand as a direct mail and online wine source, it was announced March 31. ...
Downtime for Another Paper Mill
As paper demand dwindles due to the economy, mills continue to try to control production....
Letter Mailers Want Same Postal Break as Catalogers
Stating it is “not unsympathetic to the economic difficulties catalog mailers are facing,” Bank of America told the Postal Regulation Committee that letter mailers deserve the same sort of break when the U.S. Postal Service decides on its next cost increase....
PMG Potter Seeks Legislative Relief
Postmaster General John E. Potter urged a congressional subcommittee to approve H.R. 22, which would alter the U.S. Postal Service’s payment schedule for funding retiree health benefits to help it cut costs. ...
Bassett Downsizing DCs, Staff and Catalog
Bassett Furniture plans to save $7 million to $8 million a year with a new cost-cutting plan....
TouchStone Catalog Shuts Down
Blaming postal increases and chaotic economic conditions, gifts and home decor cataloger TouchStone is closing its doors. The merchant, which is not filing for bankruptcy, has begun a controlled and orderly phasing out of its business. ...
Larger Loss for R.R. Donnelley
Even the biggest of companies can’t avoid the impact of global recession. R.R. Donnelley, the largest printer in North America, reported a fourth-quarter net loss from continuing operations of $686.9 million on net sales of $2.8 billion...
Change at the Top for Brookstone
Gifts and gadgets cataloger/retailer Brookstone announced today that its president/CEO Louis Mancini will be stepping down from his position and from the company's board of directors on March 4. Mancini, the former CEO of Murray's Discount Auto Stores, had joined Brookstone in 2006....
Metropolitan Museum to Scale Back Retail
Under pressure to reduce expenses, New York’s Metropolitan Museum will close 15 of satellite shops nationwide. The museum has also put in place a hiring freeze, revised its procurement policies, and cut back on travel and use of temporary help. ...
Fourth-Quarter Profits Plunge at Blue Nile
Thanks to consumers pulling way back on purchases of items such as jewelry, Blue Nile reported lackluster fourth-quarter results....
Catalog Prospecting Rate? Not This Year
The U.S. Postal Service was not able to implement a prospecting rate for catalogers this year, according to Stephen M. Kearney, senior vice president, customer relations, for the USPS....
ACMA To Mailers: You’re Welcome
Who do catalogers have to thank for the relatively slight postal rate hike announced yesterday? The American Catalog Mailers Association—at least according to ACMA executive director Hamilton Davison...
These came close
Healthy Living Nothing nothing about this catalog is a salute to artistry. It's the way catalogs used to look, with four to six items on each page. What...
Sales from holiday 2008
Steep discounts. Cheap shipping. Free shipping. Multichannel merchants pulled out the stops to try to get consumers to spend money this past holiday season....
Catalog Tracker: Mailing Volume Decreased in December
Merchants may have been desperate for last-minute holiday sales this year, but catalog mailing volume took a December dip. Still, those mailing catalogs did try to drive sales with incentives...
Lane Bryant Book a Bust
The News That Charming Shoppes will discontinue its Lane Bryant Woman catalog by the end of the first quarter of fiscal 2010 must have come as a relief...
A Bad Fall for Layoffs
The Fall/Holiday Season is usually a time when retailers are hiring extra help not laying people off. But in November and December, several retailers...
Finally a Break on Paper Prices
After A Tumultuous Year in the paper industry marked by quarterly price increases, rising energy and manufacturing costs, as well as several mill closures...
So-So Third Quarter For B-To-B Mailers
Despite The Ongoing Recession, the dozen business-to-business merchants and computer products marketers tracked by Multichannel Merchant turned in respectable...
Senior Manager
With his shock of white hair and gruff-but-grandfatherly demeanor, Gary Giesler could easily pass for one of the 6 million customers who buy items such...
Quebecor World Unveils New Comail Technology
Quebecor World is hoping to generate more postal savings for its catalog and periodical customers through new comailing technologies announced Dec. 11....
Catalog Tracker: September Mailings Fall Back
September was a much bigger month for catalog mailings than August, but volume fell short of September 2007 mailings, according to the Catalog Tracker service of the list firm Direct Media...
