Tahitian Noni Launches Catalog

| Tim Parry

Tahitian Noni has been a direct seller of juices and other health and wellness products for 10 years, relying on home parties as its principal sales channel. But the company has now expanded into another direct channel: print catalogs.

LISTINGS

| MCM staff

New lists Frank Cawood & Associates Cookbook Buyers During the past 24 months nearly 10,000 consumers have purchased cookbooks from Frank Cawood & Associates.

Movers & shakers

| MCM staff

Patrick Wynhoff has been named president/CEO of Chefs Brand, the parent company of the Chefs cookware catalog. He succeeds Jon Medved, who will retire

Winterthur, NWF join BlueSky

| Jim Tierney

BlueSky Brands, parent company of gifts catalogs The Paragon and Bits and Pieces, in November signed licensing agreements to manage the catalog and Internet merchandising businesses for a pair of not-for-profit groups: Wintherthur Museum & Country Estate and the National Wildlife Federation (NWF).

Home Depot folds two titles

| Tim Parry

Just a year after launching the catalogs, The Home Depot has ceased mailing its upscale furnishings book 10 Crescent Lane and lighting catalog Paces Trading

No love beat for Backword item

| MCM staff

The September Backword piece “Hardly a cause celebre” is poor journalism on par with the poor excuse for magazines sold at checkout counters. Your comments are

back word

| MCM staff

Avon deal takes Jeter from pinstripes to perfume The New York Yankees may have stunk up the baseball field in October when they were knocked out of the