Essence liquidates catalog
Magazine publisher Essence Communications Partners is in the final stages of liquidating its Essence by Mail catalog. The company, best known as the publisher
G. Neil expects to be sold by year’s end
Three months after its parent company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, human-resources products cataloger G. Neil Cos. is on the selling block.
Wine.com launches print book
San Francisco-based Wine.com is no longer an online-only purveyor of wines. The eight-year-old company, originally named Virtual Vineyards, launched a
Ebags launches print catalog
Internet marketer Ebags is getting into the catalog business. The heretofore Web-only marketer of handbags, luggage, computer cases, and diaper bags is
Sport Supply Groups mails first consumer book
Business-to-business athletic equipment cataloger Sport Supply Group has test-mailed its first consumer catalog. The 52-page baseball-products catalog,
White Flower Farm folding Shepherd’s catalog
The Shepherd’s Garden Seeds catalog, which White Flower Farm bought from founder Renee Shepherd in 1985, will be folded into the White Flower Farm catalog
Operations and Management: Don’t Drop Those Incentives Yet
A few years ago, catalogers and dot-coms competed not only for sales but also for employees. Some Internet-only firms offered outrageous signing bonuses
Operations and Management: Schein’s New DC to Speed Up Service
When Melville, NY-based medical and dental supplies cataloger Henry Schein went shopping for a location for its fifth distribution center, it adhered
J&L Industrial Cuts, Smooths, and Refines
J&L Industrial Supply, a division of $1.8 billion Latrobe, PA-based business-to-business manufacturer/marketer Kennametal, spent the better part of the
Knight’s Direct Closing City Spirit
St. Louis-based multititle mailer Knight’s Direct, which mails the Home Decorators Collection and Soft Surroundings books, will discontinue mailing women’s