Lillian Vernon sold, Muoio takes top spot
Now that Lillian Vernon Corp. has changed hands for the second time in three years, industry watchers are wondering if the new owners and the new president
News
A fresh deal for Fairfield Mint
The former chief executive at Brockton, MA-based Specialty Catalog Corp. is back in the catalog game, only this time with a smaller company that he hopes
Movers & shakers
Celebrate Express, a Seattle-based multititle mailer, has named Kevin Green CEO/president. Green was previously executive vice president/chief marketing
METHODOLOGY
On May 4, Prism Business Media e-mailed 8,460 subscribers of Multichannel Merchant and Direct, selected on an nth-name basis, an invitation to an online
Lerner becomes Metrostyle
Billed as the new face of Lerner catalog, Metrostyle will also become the new name of the women’s apparel catalog next year. Metrostyle is part of New
Surf’s up for Patagonia spin-off
Not more than 100 yards from Ventura, CA-based Patagonia’s headquarters is one of the premier right point breaks on the California coast, if not the entire
It’s the user, stupid
Okay, so it’s time to overhaul your e-commerce site or design a new one, and you’ve finally wrangled into the conference room everyone whose input you’ll
Gardener’s Supply harvests benefits from new Web platform
Though it started as a print cataloger, America’s Gardening Resource, the parent company of Gardener’s Supply Co. and Dutch Gardens, now reaps more than
Computer sellers lead the charge
Of the 10 publicly traded business-to-business and computer merchants tracked, all but three showed year-over-year sales increases for the first three
Spring doldrums
The sluggishness of spring fever seems to have infected the catalog industry. For the second month in a row, Catalog Tracker received fewer consumer books