What consumer confidence?
Despite booming consumer confidence throughout the spring and summer, the second quarter wasn’t particularly encouraging for most of the publicly traded
MCM staff
In search of an ombudsman
I long have preached the doctrine of having an outsider-someone not involved in product acquisition or product description-check catalog copy for logic.
At deadline
DRESS BARN TO LAUNCH CATALOG Discount women’s apparel retailer Dress Barn has begun recruiting executives for the catalog division it plans to launch
Wolferman’s spices up its brand
Having a 110-year-old brand name goes a long way in the catalog world. But sometimes history just isn’t enough. So last fall, food cataloger Wolferman’s
Merchandising
They say that behind every great catalog is a great merchant-many of whom are the owners or founders of the company. In fact, 48% of the participants
Cover
INSIGHT BUYS TREASURE CHEST COMPUTERS On Sept. 14, $800 million, Tempe, AZ-based computer cataloger Insight Enterprises bought $50 million competitor
People
The Michigan Bulb Group of Peoria, IL-based multititle cataloger Foster & Gallagher announced two promotions. Chris Dwyer-Jaroszcwicz, a 13-year veteran
Why catalogers must eat their young
R ecently I learned that the largest corporation at the turn of the century-the Microsoft of its day-was the American Lead Pipe Co. How is that relevant
Missing out on school uniform sales
New market opportunities don’t come along every day. Yet one that’s been available for more than a year isn’t drawing many takers. The market is students
Moore Medical returns to health
As far as Moore Medical Corp.’s stock price is concerned, not much has changed since the end of 1993, when the American Stock Exchange listed its market