A catalog redo for peanuts

| MCM staff

Peanuts are good, and according to the Peanut Institute, good for you. Bertie County Peanuts has been growing and selling peanuts since 1915, so the company

Flax finished with catalogs

| Jim Tierney

Thanks in large part to last year’s huge postal rate hike, Flax Art & Design is a direct merchant no more. The San Francisco-based retailer quietly folded

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING DIFFERENT

| MCM staff

If you’re a niche marketer looking for prospects, sometimes you just don’t know where to turn. Big lists and mass media aren’t a viable option. They’re

Catalog mailings do December dip

| Tim Parry

After two months of rising catalog volume, Catalog Tracker logged in fewer catalogs in December 2007 than it did for the same month in 2006. The service

Do Printers Get It?

| Jim Tierney

They may have a role to play. But traditional printers aren’t necessarily the best people to talk about digital printing, says Stefan Agustsson, vice

A slow finish in 2007

| Jim Tierney

The fourth quarter wasn’t great for retail sales, and it wasn’t robust for industry mergers and acquisitions either. The volume of deals in the fourth

Hot type

| Jim Tierney

A digital printer is like a gym membership the only way to get results is to use it. But too few marketers are, says Jim Schleck, chief operating officer