Home Depot Direct No Longer Separate Division
Home Depot has reorganized several units, leading to layoffs and the consumer direct division being absorbed into the merchandising group
Mark Your Calendars
Back when the print catalog was your core if not sole channel for reaching out to customers, mapping out your promotional calendar was pretty simple:
What’s New at ASAP? Lots
Automotive Specialty Accessories and Parts (ASAP), the parent company of catalogers J.C. Whitney & Co. and Stylin’ Concepts, plans to make some significant changes this year. Last month it announced one of them: a new chairman of the board of directors.
Guitar Center Buys Instrument Mailer
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again: Guitar Center certainly took that adage to heart in its efforts to acquire South Bend, IN-based The Woodwind & the Brasswind. In late January, though, its purchase of the multititle mailer was approved
Financial Update: Anemic Quarter for Deals
Only 10 mergers and acquisitions involving multichannel merchants were announced during the fourth quarter of 2006, compared with 13 the previous fourth
Celebrate Express Launches Umbrella Website
The new Celebrate Express Website is a party of sorts, one to which all of its brands were invited. CelebrateExpress.com now offers products from Birthday Express, Costume Express, and 1st Wishes,
PRC Issues Recommendations on the Postal Rate Case
On Feb. 26 the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) issued its recommendations on the rate case filed by the U.S. Postal Service last May.
USPS Gets Moving with Move Update Revisions
Postmaster General John Potter announced that the U.S. Postal Service plans to revise the agency
May 6 Looks to Be the Date for New USPS Rates
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Movies Unlimited Cobrands Catalog with Cable Network
DVD and video merchant Movies Unlimited and cable channel Turner Classic Movies (TCM) have teamed up for a cobranded catalog.