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Abacus Indicator: 4Q Response Rates Down

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According to the Abacus Indicator, a service of Broomfield, CO-based cooperate database services provider Abacus, the average house file response rate for the fourth quarter of 2004 was 3.62%. That

Winners of the 20th Annual Catalog Awards

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Winners of the 20th Annual Catalog Awards and 6th Annual I.Merchant Awards
Winners of the 20th Annual Catalog Awards and 6th Annual I.Merchant Awards were announced during a luncheon at the 22nd Annual Catalog Conference in Orlando On May 25, 2005.

School Specialty Sold for $1.5 Billion

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Boston-based Bain Capital Partners agreed to buy multititle educational supplier School Specialty for $49 a share, or roughly $1.5 billion in cash. As of Tuesday night, when the deal was announced, School Specialty’s stock was at $39.22 a share.

Winners of the 2005 Annual Catalog Awards

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The winners of the 20th Annual Catalog Awards and the Sixth Annual I.Merchant Awards, sponsored by MULTICHANNEL MERCHANT, were announced at a gala luncheon on May 25 at the Annual Catalog Conference….

Movers & shakers

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San Francisco-based home furnishings cataloger/retailer Design Within Reach appointed Ken La Honta chief financial officer. He was most recently controller

Live it up with lifestyle copy

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The old Sears catalog and the Alden catalog and the Montgomery Ward catalog were all things to all people. What these catalogs have in common is that