Hanover do-over

| Shannon Oberndorf

Hanover Direct spent the last year shrinking-consolidating warehouses, cutting staff, and trimming circulation. In doing so, the multititle consumer cataloger

Off to a heck of a start

| Mark Del Franco

Continuing to ride the wave of economic good fortune, most business-to-business and computer mailers posted solid gains during the first quarter. Of the

Are buttoned-up men unbuttoning?

| Donna Levine

When the ’80s Masters of the Universe took off their neckties for casual Fridays and began telecommuting, did they change the men’s apparel catalog business?

FALL MAILING BLITZ

| Yvonne Moran

Coming off a solid spring season, and buoyed by the strong economy and the prospect of a delayed (and manageable) postal rate increase, consumer catalog

Holiday prospects

| Sophia Burke

Patricia Woodruff is the mail order director of Thanksgiving Coffee Co., a Fort Bragg, CA-based catalog of organic and gourmet coffee and tea. Annual

Down on distributors

| Paul Miller

A survey released in April by the Northfield, IL-based consulting firm Industrial Performance Group (IPG) shows that manufacturers are highly critical

Filling Runyon’s shoes

| Paul Miller

While the U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors has been under attack for pursuing what many mailers feel is an unnecessary rate increase, it’s drawing