This year’s best and worst
Well, here we go again. Finding outstanding catalogs gets easier and easier, and finding less-than-effective catalogs gets more and more difficult. Even
Catalog
Revving up finally
Catalog Tracker’s mailbox was chock full of consumer books in November. All told, the service of Greenwich, CT-based list services firm Direct Media logged
Tell and show and tell some more
We were having dinner with friends when one of them complimented the outfit my daughter was wearing. I bought it from Lands’ End, I said. My friend shook
The first five commandments of database content management
Welcome to a new quarterly column by Jim Wheaton, cofounder/principal of Wheaton Group, a Chicago-based data management, data mining, and decision sciences
Postal Service releases rate case updates
The U.S. Postal Service in January released revisions to its proposed mailing standards as part of the pending rate case, which if approved will be implemented
Paper Manufacturers Abitibi, Bowater to Merge
In a deal that will create the third largest public paper and forest products company in North America, Montreal-based Abitibi Consolidated and Greenville, SC-based Bowater today agreed to combine companies
PC Connection Ends 2006 on a High Note
Annual net income at Merrimack, NH-based PC Connection more than tripled, to $13.8 million for the year ended Dec. 31, 2006.
Study: Women Prefer Direct Mail to E-mail Ads
Direct mail is read by 32% more women ages 25-44 than e-mail advertising, according to the Customer Focus 2007 Direct Mail study conducted by Baltimore-based marketing services provider Vertis Communications
Blair Agrees to Be Acquired by Appleseed’s
On Jan. 23, four days after making a preliminary offer to buy the remaining shares of Blair it didn’t already own, Appleseed’s Topco, a subsidiary of Golden Gate Capital, entered into a definitive agreement
USPS Releases Rate Case Revisions; Comments Due Jan. 31
Last week the U.S. Postal Service released revisions to its proposed mailing standards as part of the pending rate case, which if approved will be implemented in May.