Vitacost.com Catalog Proves to be Healthy

| Jim Tierney

Selling dietary supplements such as vitamins, as well as cosmetics, organic personal care products and health foods in a catalog can be a tall order. But Vitacost.com, which has about 30,000 SKUs from more than 1,600 brands, embraces this task in award-winning style.

Jackson & Perkins, Park Seed Filings Reflect the Times

| Tim Parry

While seed mailers tend to do well in a recession, their ornamental plant counterparts tend to struggle. Which means the timing of George W. Park Seed Co.’s 2007 acquisition of Jackson & Perkins Co. may have put both merchants on a crash course with Chapter 11 bankruptcy.