Neiman Marcus Direct Up 8.7% In 3Q

| MCM staff

At upscale apparel and decor mailer Neiman Marcus Direct, which includes the catalog and online operations for Neiman Marcus and Horchow and the Bergdorf Goodman Website, fiscal third-quarter sales rose 8.7%

Schein to swallow another

| MCM staff

Another week, another Henry Schein acquisition. This week the medical, dental, and veterinary supplies merchant is setting its sights down under:

Five Questions to Ask When Testing Rentals

| MCM staff

If you’re testing names, how do you know you selected the right list? At a session titled “Maneuvering Through the Merge/Purge for Best Response Rates” at the Annual Conference for Catalogers and Multichannel Merchants (ACCM) in Boston last month, Lane posed five questions mailers should ask of every list test.

Find Your Geographic Sweet Spots and Dead Zones

| Jim Coogan

Mailers have used zip tables for years to find hot areas to mail deeper and poor areas to avoid. You should consider optimizing your prospecting lists by geographic sweet spots to squeeze more profitable response from prospecting, while cutting out your catalog’s dead zones.

May sales roundup

| MCM staff

May was not a kind month to most of the publicly traded companies tracked by MULTICHANNEL MERCHANT.

Schein Sinks Teeth Into Dental Supplier Deal

| Jim Tierney

Henry Schein has gobbled up another company. The Melville, NY-based medical, dental, and veterinary supplies merchant on June 4 announced an agreement to buy the full-service and special markets businesses of New York-based Becker-Parkin Dental Supply Co.