Sales Down All Around For Frederick’s
Fourth-quarter sales for women
Catalog
Sales Fall 20% for 1-800-Flowers.com
First-quarter sales for multititle mailer 1-800-Flowers.com dropped 20%, to $108.3 million, compared to $135.4 million for the same period last year.
Pottery Barn Kids Snips Threads Spin-off
The Pottery Barn Kids retail concept called Threads has closed after just 15 months. The two baby clothing and gifts stores, located in New York and Bellevue, WA, had opened in late 2007.
More Mill Downtime for NewPage
NewPage Corp., the top producer of coated freesheet paper in North America, announced Oct. 13 it plans to take about 160,000 tons of market-related downtime in the fourth quarter of 2009.
Seriously Bad Second Quarter
JUST WHEN YOU THINK THINGS CAN’T GET ANY WORSE, they do. The second quarter was even more dismal than the first for the business-to-business and computer
Taking an ax to paper costs
If you’re struggling to find ways to cut costs, don’t overlook the paper on which your catalog is printed. After all, paper may be the most expensive
The shift to a two-step conversion
One of the latter-day dangers many catalogers face is using their print editions as bland feeder-mechanisms to their Websites. Whether a target customer
Price hikes unlikely for last quarter
A few companies have announced price increases of $2 per hundredweight (cwt), or $40 per ton, for coated paper in the fourth quarter. But some industry
Unsung merchants
WHEN I READ THAT a retail icon named Nancy Talbot recently died at 89, I figured she must have had something to do with the women’s apparel cataloger/retailer
Bracing for the critics
ORTHO TECHNOLOGY While wearing braces is a drag for most adolescents, selling orthodontia products to dental professionals via catalog is fraught with