Delray Beach, FL-based Office Depot, which mails the Viking Office Products family of catalogs, reported slightly higher sales but lower earnings

On Oct. 20, Kirkland, WA-based party gifts and accessories marketer Celebrate Express joins catalogers such as Williams-Sonoma, Sharper Image, and Cabela

New Orleans–Mokrynski & Associates is no more. The Hackensack, NJ-based services provider has changed its name to MokrynskiDirect, to reflect its growth from a list management and brokerage firm to what it calls “a full-range provider of growth solutions.”

Layoffs and hiring freezes within the direct marketing industry are at their lowest levels in four years

Hampstead, MD-based mens apparel cataloger/retailer Jos. A. Bank on Oct. 11 announced that it has signed on with TV home shopping channel QVC to launch a virtual storefront on QVC

With neither of the committee-approved postal reform bills scheduled for consideration by the full House or Senate as of Oct. 7, Direct Marketing Association president/CEO John Greco declared in an Oct. 8 e-mail alert to members that postal reform this year