The Blair WMS project
As vice president of fulfillment for Warren, PA-based Blair Corp., Randy Scalise is responsible for Blair’s men’s and women’s apparel catalogs, including
MCM staff
TIDBITS
Who ya gonna call? Is your distribution center so loud that you can’t hear yourself think? Behold the NoiseBuster from Fort Pierce, FL-based Pro Tech
Making sense of the postal rate case
The postal rate case proposed on May 3 calls for an average rate increase of about 8.5%. But unlike the postage increases implemented this past January,
And the Winners of the MCM Awards Are
At a special luncheon on the closing day of ACCM, the winners of our annual Multichannel Merchant Awards (formerly the Annual Catalog Awards and the Annual
Unlikely bedfellows
New York-based multititle cataloger Redcats USA is turning its attention to the outdoors. On May 5 it announced a definitive agreement to acquire South
The goods on product development
Most marketers understand that their merchandise is what sets them apart from the competition. But as finding new product becomes increasingly challenging,
Movers & shakers
W.W. Grainger, the Lake Forest, IL-based industrial distributor, has promoted James T. Ryan to president. Ryan was most recently group president for the
New lists
PersonalizationMall.com Package Insert Program An online merchant of personalized gifts, PersonalizationMall.com expects to ship at least 290,000 packages
Home Depot buys HDC
Further proof that Home Depot wants to be a major player in the direct-to-consumer home decor market: On April 25 the Atlanta-based retail giant announced
TALES FROM THE FRONT
Venus models don’t wrestle with this offer We’ve said it before, but you never know where catalog modeling might lead you. According to newsletter Wrestling