PRODUCTION

| Shannon Oberndorf

What a long, strange trip it’s been for Rio Grande’s production process. Up until five years ago, the business-to-business gems and jewelry tools cataloger

BUSINESS-TO-BUSINESS

| Mark Del Franco

Both revenue and earnings figures continue to be strong among the publicly traded business-to-business and computer mailers tracked by Catalog Age. Except

SPIN-OFFS

| Mark Del Franco

Think of Hanover Direct’s newest title, Encore, as a “greatest hits” catalog. The book, which launched in August, sells products from eight of Hanover’s

LEGISLATION

| Paul Miller

Congress is looking at opt-in and opt-out policies as part of two privacy-related bills that could make it more difficult for marketers to obtain consumer

OCTOBER AT DEAD LINE

| MCM staff

COMMISSION CALLS FOR SIMPLIFIED TAX SYSTEM In the second meeting of the Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce (ACEC), held Sept. 14 and 15 in New