Henry Schein posts record first-quarter sales and income, while Bluefly cuts its loss and boosts its revenue.

Finding enough gay and lesbian lists to rent has been a challenge for marketers. While there are about 15 million identified gays and lesbians in the U.S., the names of only about a third of them are available for rental or exchange.

Harrison, NY-based database marketing services I-Behavior was awarded a U.S. patent for its cooperative database software. The company says that Dynamic Data Link software is capable of accurately integrating online and off-line buyer records. The database consolidates the

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To guesstimate the effectiveness of a new rental list, take a look at the broker report, suggests Jim Coogan, president of Santa Fe, NM-based consultancy Catalog Marketing Economics. Specifically you should look at the gross-to-net percentage: the number of names dropped in the merge/purge because they duplicate names found on other lists in the merge.

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Like the outdoors enthusiasts it targets, the outdoors and recreation market is a hardy one. According to New York-based media brokerage services firm