SALES ROUNDUP: FALLING UPWARD

| Mark Del Franco

Fall sales reports point to a green holiday seasonHeading into the holiday season, a number of catalogers have cut back on prospecting in favor of mailing

Scat, copycats

| MCM staff

In Glenda Shasho Jones’s article this month, titled “The 10 most common creative mistakes” (page 119), the number-three mistake is copycat creative. Indeed,

Those pesky product problems

| Moira Pascale

This month’s questionWhat is the biggest merchandising challenge you’ve faced?Trouble securing inventory tops the list of small catalogers’ myriad merchandising

POSTAL: Expect rate hike by 2001

| Paul Miller

On Sept. 10, the U.S. Postal Service ended its fiscal year in the black for the fifth consecutive time; spurred by the past year’s $700 million cost reduction

Room with a dejavu

| MCM staff

Hey, mistakes happen. But a Catalog Age staffer did think she was going crazy when paging through her 148-page Autumn 1999 Pottery Barn. That’s because

Peterman poseurs?

| MCM staff

We may have discovered where at least one of J. Peterman’s illustrators is moonlighting while the upscale apparel marketer’s catalog remains on hiatus.