What You’ll Pay As of June 30
As you’re doubtless aware, postal rates will be increasing June 30. Below are the new rates for some of the categories most commonly used by catalogers.
MCM staff
Patagonia Gets Creative
As a manufacturer/marketer of outdoor gear and apparel, Patagonia doesn’t vary its product offerings hugely from one year to the next. And because roughly
Federated Mulls Its Fingerhut Options
Five weeks after Federated Department Stores accepted a nonbinding letter of intent from Business Development Group Acquisitions (BDGA) to buy its entire
Listings
NEW LISTS IDEA ART The 85,000 24-month buyers of the Idea Art catalog spent an average of $200 an order on specialty papers for desktop printers. Customers,
From Paycheck to Paycheck
Are you paying your operations employees enough? Or with the weaker economy, could you now fill that open fulfillment-manager job for less than you paid
opinion & response
Rightfully Riled About Wrong Number As I discussed with Paul Miller, who wrote your article Bass Pro Focuses on Its Channels (March 1 issue), the sales
The Sweet Smell of Sales
Ah, the scents of spring freshly mown grass, budding flowers, the economy picking up. What was that last one again? I can just smell the economy turning
PC Connection, PC Mall Make Acquisitions
In the space of nine days, two computer catalogers PC Connection and PC Mall announced acquisitions. On March 26, Merrimack, NH-based PC Connection reported
Artful Dodgers
Back in elementary school, I was forced to attend a class on something called moral science. It wasn’t religious instruction, exactly, but it did give
Movers and shakers
Alan Bechara has signed on with Torrance, CA-based PC Mall as president/general manager of its new PC Mall Gov subsidiary. He previously worked in government