Rye Brook, NY–Catalogers considering selling blow-ins should be sure to get the size dimensions of the inserts their advertisers are looking to place up front; otherwise, they could face some unexpected postage costs
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Although its two stores remain dark, New York-based toy marketer FAO Schwarz relaunched its catalog business this week, mailing 1 million books that try to distance the company from its recent past.
San Diego-based As We Change is operating under new ownership. Manufacturer/marketer Real Health Laboratories, also based in San Diego, purchased the cataloger
Hurricane Frances forced numerous Florida businesses to shut down for several days.
Improved catalog sales in the month of August for the publicly traded cataloger/retailers give cause for cautious optimism as consumer marketers gear up for the all-important fourth quarter.
Judging by the number of pint-sized pure-breds teetering along city sidewalks and poking their heads out of designer pocketbooks, small dogs are big business.
Philadelphia-based imprintable sportswear cataloger Broder Bros. announced on Aug. 31 that it has acquired NES Clothing Co., a Middleboro, MA-based regional distributor of imprintable sportswear. Boston-based private equity firm Bain Capital, which owns the majority stake in Broder Bros., orchestrated the deal to buy the privately owned NES.
Dallas-based Collegiate Pacific (AMEX: BOO) reported fourth-quarter net income of $923,000, a 48% increase compared with $623,000 last year.
Industrial gases and welding safety supplies cataloger Airgas on Sept. 1 acquired the assets and operations of Welding Supply House, specifically Welding Supply