APPAREl: market leaders – COLDWATER CREEK
Trendy clothes are hard to find in catalog apparel. Experts agree that by and large shoppers have come to expect more conservative and comfortable-fitting
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APPAREL: market leaders – VICTORIA’S SECRET
Throughout much of the 1990s, Victoria’s Secret took pride in cluttering customers’ and prospects’ mailboxes with countless editions of its catalogs.
PAPER, BRICKS & CLICKS: 10 STEPS TO CHANNEL INTEGRATION
The never-ending hype about e-commerce over the past few years has sent many catalogers and retailers speeding to produce flashy, attention-getting Websites.
APPAREL: market leaders – J.C. PENNEY
It’s never been a fashion innovator, and probably never will be one. But the $3.9 billion catalog division of retail giant J.C. Penney is an apparel leader
at deadline
LOOK OUT, HERE COMES SPIEGEL Spiegel Inc. continued its yearlong-plus comeback in high style by announcing a 78% gain in fourth-quarter earnings per share.
FOCUS: LABORATORY/SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTS – www.vwrsp.com
Reviewed 1/7/00, 12:30 p.m., Netscapeever heard of VWR Scientific Products? Me neither. But I’m not in the laboratory or scientific supplies business,
APPAREL: market leaders – BRYLANE
Bought last year by French retail giant Pinault-Printemps-Redoute (PPR), the formerly public Brylane has built up a solid group of specialty-size and
A `chicken or egg’ question
This month’s questionsDid you start out as a store or as a catalog? What made you decide to cross over to the other medium?The legend of the kitchen-table
FOCUS: BABY PRODUCTS – hanna andersson
Reviewed Jan. 25, 12:30 p.m., Explorer 5.0 (www.hannaandersson.com)Plenty of “experts” say that a splash page is critical to establishing your brand online,
Sleep easy
A Catalog Age staffer recently placed an order with the Pottery Barn Kids catalog. In the order package, she received much more than your typical package