Airgas acquires fellow distributor
The nation’s largest distributor of gases and welding supplies just got a little bigger. On Dec. 2, Radnor, PA-based Airgas acquired Detroit-based Welding
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To Love Them Is to Know Them
Many of the most-used features on Quill.com’s Website weren’t the company’s idea. They were its customers’. From a personalized favorites list to an automatic
A Year Later: Catalogers Post-9/11
There’s no way to say it without sounding trite: For most Americans, life post-9/11 differs from life pre-9/11. And while the majority of us were spared
Annual Catalog Awards Winners Announced
The winners of the 17th Annual Catalog Awards and the 3rd Annual I.Merchant Awards were announced at the Annual Catalog Conference in Chicago on June
Alamo completes Valu-Bilt acquisition
Alamo Group has completed is acquisition of the assets of $14.1 million Des Moines, IA-based Valu-Bilt Tractor Parts from Quality Stores for $7.5 million.
Adam & Eve Scores with Cable Spots
When Adam & Eve launched a television ad campaign in early February, the adult-products cataloger hoped the commercial would garner 25-50 catalog requests
All the News That’s Good
While at the prescreening for the Annual Catalog Awards (you did check out the list of finalists on page 8, didn’t you?), one of the judges pumped me
A Tulip Is a Tulip Is a Tulip
Seems to me that the sad saga of Fingerhut could have been avoided if someone at Federated Department Stores had read Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates.
After Acquisition, Holiday Diver Is in the Swim
Holiday Diver, which mails the Divers Direct catalog, in January acquired its chief competitor: Chapel Hill, NC-based Performance Diver. Terms of the