January Sales Roundup
Most of publicly traded merchants tracked by CATALOG AGE began the new year on solid footing sales-wise.
News
Listworks Shuts Down
Hawthorne, NY-based list firm Listworks Corp. shut its doors on Feb. 1. Calls to the company were met with a voice mail message simply instructing callers to leave a message.
NLC Products Looking for Acquisitions
Attention, small catalog owners: If you?re looking for an exit, come this way. Privately held Little Rock, AR-based NLC Products is seeking to buy
“Lucky” Merchants Not Suffering from Post-Tsunami Inventory Woes
Merchants interviewed by CATALOG AGE are counting their blessings that none of their suppliers have been hurt by December
AMR Research Outlines Key Retail Decisions
Three reports recently released by Boston-based AMR Research address the emerging retail trends of 2005, as well as process and technology decisions that retailers will need to make to support their businesses. Collectively titled Decisions 2005, the reports cover store operations, demand intelligence, retail planning, RFID, retail supply chain, pricing and promotion management. According to Scott Langdoc, AMR’s VP of Research, “Key challenges for the industry include: mega-retailer dominance, the blurring of segments and channels, the effects of increasing online sales on brick-and-mortar retailers, the shifting focus of customer loyalty toward low cost, compliance driven visibility and controls issues, as well as increasing IT costs.”
AMR suggests these top priority decisions:
Employee Care: Wear Your Heart on Your Sleeve
If you want your business to succeed, you must let love enter your workplace. Flustered? Don
Online Retail: At Last, After Years of Function, Fun!
Given the not-so-ancient dot-com debacle, it was inevitable that online merchants would have their eyes glued to their spreadsheets for several years. Now, however, it appears that they
Gunning for Google
Microsoft is gunning for Google and Yahoo! Unhappy that its MSN Search is only the third most popular search engine, Microsoft has feverishly been working
Gay lists come out of the closet
Marketers have many compelling reasons to target the gay and lesbian community. According to Jon Pogact, sales manager for Brewster, NY-based list firm