April Sales Roundup

| MCM staff

For many mass retailers, April was indeed a cruel month, with companies such as AnnTaylor, Dillard

Financial Reports: Schein, Guitar Center, Lenox, Blue Nile

| MCM staff

Schein Has Another Shining Quarter Medical, dental, and veterinary supplier Henry Schein reported a 15% increase in first-quarter sales, while first-quarter income more than doubled. For the three months ended March 31, Melville, NY-based Schein netted …

Use the Co-ops to Flag and Drop Dormant Households

| Jim Coogan

Use your co-op databases to flag the households with zero purchasing activity in the last six months, nine months, or 12 months. The co-ops can profile your house file and identify those households that have had zero mail order transactions across all the members of the database.