Financial reports: REI, School Specialty, more

| MCM staff

REI Back in Black Outdoor gear cataloger/retailer Recreational Equipment Inc. (REI) enjoyed a 6% rise in annual sales, to $740 million from $698 million

You Better Shop Around

| Brian Santo

As with any catalog or retail shopping adventure, a customer’s experience on your Website can make or break your relationship with that buyer. So when

Slim, Fast

| D. Douglas Graham

Few of us can remember the number of times we’ve resolved to lose weight, or the number of times we’ve gone off a diet. For companies, however, the current

Peaceable Kingdom

| Jeff Siegel

Rick Peterson is a quiet, soft-spoken man who seems to put plenty of thought into his answers. So ask him what it was like to move from a non-union to

Making the Cuts

| MCM staff

Edmund Optics canceled all fourth-quarter travel. Girlfriends L.A. is using lighter packaging materials to lower its shipping costs. Newark Electronics

Mixed Signs on Catalog Delivery

| Paul Miller

This season, catalog delivery timeliness, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. Most catalogers and industry watchdogs say that despite anthrax-related

The Whole Shebang

| Rama Ramaswami

When you finally make logistics VP, you have it all and you get to do it all. In its 2001 survey of career patterns in logistics, The Ohio State University