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There goes the neighborhood Middleton, WI-based dolls marketer American Girl can’t get a break. Critics have said that the company’s core collection of
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Brookstone Puts Gardeners Eden Up for Sale
Two months after it agreed to be sold to a consortium of investors, cataloger/retailer Brookstone announced that it was putting its Gardeners Eden title up for sale.
Finnish Paper Workers Strike Ended
Good news for paper buyers: An agreement was reached Wednesday between the Finnish Forest Industries Federation (FFIF) and the Finnish Paperworkers Union, ending the labor dispute that had shut down mill operations
Live from DMDNY: USPS Gives Marketers a “Leg Up”
Postmaster General and native New Yorker Jack Potter seemed right at home during his Wednesday lunchtime keynote address at the DM Days New York conference here
PajamaGram Revs Up Fall Circ
Based on a much higher than expected response to its Christmas 2004 and
Mother’s Day 2005 catalogs, Shelburne, VT-based PajamaGram, part of Vermont Teddy Bear, is sending six times as many catalogs this Christmas
Mackay Makes It Happen
Harvey Mackay, bestselling author and chairman of Minneapolis-based Mackay Envelope Co., has been dubbed “Mr. Make Things Happen” by Fortune magazine.
BlowSearch Stakes Its Rep on Click Protection
BlowSearch is a metasearch engine with a mission: They want to reduce the amount of automated click fraud on the Web, and make themselves a strong mid-market search contender in the bargain.
Bikes, Sir Branson and Ten Million Views
Craig Ridenhour