Movers and Shakers

| MCM staff

Foot Locker has named Ken C. Hicks president/CEO. Hicks, who had been president/chief merchandising officer of J.C. Penney Co., succeeds Foot Locker CEO

Bookish Buyers Back Off

| Tim Parry

The books, music and video market totaled 3.5 million active names in the first quarter of 2009, according to list brokerage services firm ParadyszMatera.

Slimmer Pickings

| MCM staff

The tall, skinny catalogs affectionately known as slim-jims are soon to be scarce, once the latest U.S. Postal Service modifications kick in on Sept.

Building better creative

| Glenda Shasho Jones

Are you guilty of leaving your catalog’s front and back cover planning and design until the last minute? And when you finally get to the covers, do you

Inside the Spiegel Sale

| MCM staff

For the Second Time in Less than a Year, Spiegel Brands has a New Owner. Signature Styles, a newly formed division of private equity firm Patriarch Partners,