The icon has a new icon: Rye, NY-based industry stalwart Lillian Vernon Corp. is tweaking its catalog, reworking its Website, and even flaunting a new

Lynchburg, VA-based McFeely’s Square Drive Screws is typical of most smaller catalog companies. Its owner/president, Jim Ray, is grappling with spiraling

To paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of the demise of Concepts Direct’s five catalog titles have been greatly exaggerated. According to president Phillip Wiland, an article in the Boulder County (CO) “Daily Camera” stating that the $51.6 million mailer would shut its doors at the end of the year was incomplete.

CATALOG AGE has learned that Longmont, CO-based multititle cataloger Concepts Direct, which mails the Linda Anderson, The Music Stand, Garfield Stuff, and New Bargains catalog titles, will close at the end of the year.

EBay is the latest online-only marketer to expand into print. The San Jose, CA-based Internet auction site mailed

Although it

San Francisco-based private equity firm JH Partners acquired $75 million Chef’s Catalog from Dallas-based Neiman Marcus Group.

The Gorton

In a continuing effort to become a destination for purchasers of big-ticket hard goods, Corte Madera, CA-based Restoration Hardware redesigned its catalog