super balance
All Superman had to do was jump over tall buildings. You, by contrast, must boost your facility’s operating performance, reduce costs, increase reliability,
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Listings
NEW LISTS POWERHOUSE The nearly 7,500 12-month buyers of the PowerHouse catalog are now available for rental. Customers, 60% of whom are women, spend
Opinion & Response
Down on UPS Over the years we have heard and seen how the United Parcel Service seems to do everything it can to show its lack of concern and sheer disdain
Hand It Over
There is more than one factor to consider in using automated systems rather than a manual process: seasonal volume, possible cost reductions, the total
People News
Oshkosh, WI-based gifts cataloger Miles Kimball Co. has promoted Vicki Updike to vice president of marketing and circulation planning. Updike, who had
Lock, Dock, and Barrel
The lockout of Pacific ports that the Pacific Maritime Association initiated during the last weekend in September underlined the rather downbeat tone
Apparel next for Amazon.com?
Dot-com champ Amazon.com is reportedly developing a multibrand online apparel store featuring goods from Lands
Guitar Center’s 3Q something to sing about
Third-quarter direct sales at musical instruments marketer Guitar Center (Nasdaq: GTRC), which includes cataloger Musician
Potpourri Holdings sold
Multititle mailer Potpourri Holdings has been sold to Linsalata Capital Partners, a private equity firm based in Mayfield Heights, OH. The Medfield, MA-based
Winton Blount, first postmaster general of reorganized USPS, dies
Winton Blount, who was the postmaster general under President Nixon when the Post Office Department was reorganized in 1970 from a government agency to