Movers & shakers
San Francisco-based home furnishings cataloger/retailer Design Within Reach appointed Ken La Honta chief financial officer. He was most recently controller
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CORRECTION
In the May 1 issue, we had an error on our Market Snapshot chart of outdoor gear mailers with the largest active buyer files. We inadvertently picked
Live it up with lifestyle copy
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
LEAVING HOME
Three days after Valentine’s Day, in the middle of a typical New England winter, The Boston Globe reached out and punched many of us Vermonters in the
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Merchants mad for Martha’s poncho When lifestyle guru Martha Stewart was released from a West Virginia federal prison in early March after serving five
NEW CATALOGS
Lamps Plus Chatsworth, CA-based home lighting fixture specialist Lamps Plus, which has 45 stores in seven states (primarily on the West Coast) and an
The Art of Relocating
Selecting a suitable location and property for your distribution center or headquarters isn’t simply a matter of driving around a few neighborhoods and
Water those laurels!
As I write this, I’ve just returned from this year’s Annual Catalog Conference in Orlando, FL, which was one of the most energetic, positive ACCs I’ve
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In an increasingly connected world, supply chain management (SCM) is no longer an arcane discipline confined to academia. Logistics experts tell us that