Varsity cheers on two spin-offs

| MCM staff

Varsity Spirit Corp. is branching out from the football field to the recital hall. The $54 million cataloger, whose core book sells uniforms for cheerleading

Another go at ‘eco-fashion’

| MCM staff

Within the past year, designers Donna Karan and Liz Claiborne have introduced environmentally friendly fibers such as organic cotton into their spring

M&S launches second catalog

| MCM staff

U.S. mailers such as Lands’ End and Talbots that have set their sights on the $9 billion U.K. catalog market are finding stiff competition from British

Debit card use to grow

| Mark Del Franco

Although debit cards debuted about 10 years ago, consumers are just now embracing them. Credit card provider Mastercard estimates that from 1996 to 1997,

Is the Census in danger?

| Kris Oser

The U.S. Census is the mother of all databases. The federal government allocates more than $100 billion in federal funds based on census data. And for