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A `chicken or egg’ question

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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

Sleep easy

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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

Playing by the numbers

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This month’s questionDo you plan to be more aggressive with your catalog circulation for 2000?Who knows if the small catalogers we spoke to this month

The Santa Claus affair

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Just call her Kristine Kringle. When apparel cataloger Lands’ End used two “mystery Santas” as cover models for December catalogs, and launched a Web

Micro Warehouse sold

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To hear Jerome York tell it, the pending acquisition of $2.22 billion computer cataloger Micro Warehouse by an eclectic group of investors is little more

BENCHMARK 2000 MARKETING

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When times are good, budgets typically grow. Reflecting this, more catalogers appear to have increased their spending in many areas of marketing. Take

THE NEW GLOBAL MERCHANT

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Now that you can reach buyers worldwide, make it easy for them to buy from youFor all the hype about the age of Internet commerce – the breathtaking stock