Is Williams-Sonoma Making New “Home” For Chambers?
Multititle home goods cataloger/retailer Williams-Sonoma is developing a furnishings spin-off of its eponymous kitchen products title. And according to
Study Tests Multichannel Service Success
Are you a true multichannel merchant? Many catalogers talk the talk, but The E-tailing Group sent out a group of secret shoppers out to stores to see
Blair Goes into the Banking Business
Hoping to better manage its credit-card operations, apparel and home goods cataloger Blair Corp. is launching the JLB Service Bank as a wholly owned subsidiary.
Courts Could Decide Control of Hanover Direct
A New York court could decide multititle cataloger Hanover Direct
July Sales Roundup
Like the temperature, sales for the publicly traded cataloger/retailers tracked by CATALOG AGE rose in July. In fact, sales growth at the direct units
Revving Up Sales and Security Efforts
You wouldn’t think that a small rectangular image on a Website would increase sales. But Stylin’ Concepts, an Independence, OH-based multititle mailer
The New Trend: Catalogers Turning Private
Eyebrows raised when San Francisco-based gifts cataloger RedEnvelope filed for an initial public offering with the Securities and Exchange Commission
Operations and Management: Overseas Shipping Options
Most catalogers aren’t international marketers on the scale of Lands’ End or Viking Office Products. But thanks largely to the Internet, many mailers
Hardly an Auspicious Start
Most experts agree that consumers are beginning to feel optimistic about an economic recovery. But you wouldn’t know it from first-quarter results of
Calyx & Corolla for Sale Again
Less than three years after Equity Resource Partners bought Calyx & Corolla from now-defunct retail consolidator Gerald Stevens, the flowers and plants