At Deadline
DHL AGREES TO BUY AIRBORNE EXPRESS GROUND NETWORK DHL Worldwide Express, a delivery service owned by Deutsche Post AG of Germany, has agreed to acquire
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Blair Announces Board Changes
Warren, PA-based apparel and home goods cataloger Blair Corp. has named director Craig Johnson the new chairman of the board and Michael Schuler a new
Will Spiegel Survive Chapter 11?
The first quarter of 2003 hasn’t been a stellar one for multititle mailer The Spiegel Group. Even before filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on
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NEW LISTS HISPANIC CONSUMERS This 12 million-name Hispanic database includes 658, 956 Hispanic-American catalog shoppers. They have a median age of 32
The Top 20 Stories of the Past 20 Years
In an industry as broad as the catalog business one that encompasses merchandising, marketing, fulfillment, and what have you it’s tough to cull a definitive
20 Years’ Worth of Epiphanies
Ours is not to question taste. Ours is just to cut and paste. That bit of doggerel used to hang in the paste-up area of the first magazine I worked for,
Three Concepts Direct Board Members Resign
The tumult continues at multititle gifts and stationery mailer Concepts Direct. On April 14, the board of directors of the Longmont, CO-based cataloger
Where Were They Then?
Alan Bloomfield THEN Owned Galls, a Lexington, KY-based retailer of police equipment that he’d bought in 1980, after working at the company as a sales
Catalog Tracker: Free S&H Isn’t Just for Holiday
If you thought free-shipping offers would go the way of holiday ornaments and leftover wrapping paper that is, into storage until the next holiday season
People News
New York-based Return Path, a provider of e-mail change of address services, appointed Anita Absey vice president of sales. Before joining Return Path,