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Thanks to consumers pulling way back on purchases of items such as jewelry, Blue Nile reported lackluster fourth-quarter results.

While catalogers got off relatively lightly with the 2009 postal rates increases announced last week, small parcel shippers got hit hard.

The U.S. Postal Service was not able to implement a prospecting rate for catalogers this year, according to Stephen M. Kearney, senior vice president, customer relations, for the USPS.

Thomas M. Rouen Jr., former executive vice president of ParceLite Solutions, a division of TMSi Logistics, in January was named president/chief operating officer as of TMSi Logistics.

Frederick’s of Hollywood Group has promoted Linda LoRe to president of the company.

Private equity firm KPS Partners has won an auction to purchase substantially all of the assets of tableware and collectibles merchant Lenox Group.

Cooperative outdoor gear and apparel cataloger/retailer Recreational Equipment Inc. (REI) brought some bad news with some good news Wednesday

With the announcement that its January sales had slipped 9%, maintenance, repair, and operations products marketer W.W. Grainger said yesterday that it will cut 300 to 400 jobs

Who do catalogers have to thank for the relatively slight postal rate hike announced yesterday? The American Catalog Mailers Association