Mexico’s Liverpool launches U.S. site
Mexico City-based department store giant Liverpool, which last year reaped an estimated $3 billion in sales, in March unveiled an online catalog that
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The postal rate case proposed on May 3 calls for an average rate increase of about 8.5%. But unlike the postage increases implemented this past January,
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Catalogers spend nearly 40% of their total marketing expenses on printing and postage, according to the 2005 Multichannel Merchant Benchmark Report on
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Eschew obfuscation: That’s an ironic instruction long beloved by journalism teachers. In plain English, it means, well, to speak in plain English. Clearly
From print to screen
With broadband penetration hitting critical mass, more multichannel merchants are adding interactive, or virtual, catalogs to their Websites. Usually
A taxing concern
For nearly 15 years the law of the land has been clear on the issue of use tax. In 1992’s Quill v. North Dakota, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that remote
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Venus models don’t wrestle with this offer We’ve said it before, but you never know where catalog modeling might lead you. According to newsletter Wrestling
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W.W. Grainger, the Lake Forest, IL-based industrial distributor, has promoted James T. Ryan to president. Ryan was most recently group president for the
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Then: British broadcaster BBC released the BBC America Shop print catalog in September 2001, three years after it launched its BBC America cable-TV network.
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