Survey: Inventory Levels Fell in 2009
More than 50% of the companies surveyed saw a decrease in inventory levels during 2009, according to a recent Finished Goods Inventory Management Report by Tompkins Supply Chain Consortium.
Debt Forces Oriental Trading Into Chapter 11
In an effort to pay down debt, OTC Holdings Corp., owner of gifts and novelty merchant Oriental Trading, on Aug. 25 filed voluntary petitions for reorganization under Chapter 11 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.
Email Deliverability 2010: What’s New, What’s True
Deliverability has always been a concern for email marketers
5 TIPS FOR BECOMING A TWEETER
Why Should You Tweet? It’s a great way of finding out what others in your field are up to; it helps you meet new contacts; you can alert people to what’s
A new crop of catalogs
When It Comes to the Web, most merchants are happy to talk about what they’re doing even how they’re doing. Getting them to talk about general sales is
This is one Crappy Cake
An MCM Staffer was paging through RSH’s Summer 2010 catalog edition and spotted a gorgeous white layer cake. Before she could get too lost in visions
Q&A WITH USPS’S SUSAN PLONKEY
Susan M. Plonkey, The Acting President, mailing and shipping services, for the U.S. Postal Service as of June 3, talks with senior writer Jim Tierney