Mrs. Beasley’s acquires manufacturer
Baked goods manufacturer/marketer Mrs. Beasley’s has acquired bread manufacturer Buona Forchetta. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Buona Forchetta’s
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NewRoads acquires APL Direct
NewRoads, a provider of fulfillment and customer care services, has acquired Hebron, KY-based APL Direct Logistics, the consumer direct fulfillment division
Benchmark Report on Merchandising 2002
What location is to the real estate industry, merchandise is to catalogers. At least that’s the conventional wisdom. But some of the results from Catalog
Lists and Prospecting: List Fulfillment Comes of Age
Last January, Plano, TX-based service bureau Electronic Data Systems (EDS) informed its clients that it would no longer support or distribute rental lists
Knight’s Direct Closing City Spirit
St. Louis-based multititle mailer Knight’s Direct, which mails the Home Decorators Collection and Soft Surroundings books, will discontinue mailing women’s
Jump Those Hurdles!
It’s a miracle that selling with a catalog works at all that in this world of skepticism a customer is willing to risk his money on a product he has seen
New Web Catalogs
Friends Now & Forever Visalia, CA-based wedding accessories cataloger Now & Forever is going after the teen girls’ market with a spin-off Website, Friends
To Love Them Is to Know Them
Many of the most-used features on Quill.com’s Website weren’t the company’s idea. They were its customers’. From a personalized favorites list to an automatic
Into the Merch Mix
With the current economic climate inspiring a steady stream of layoffs and circulation cuts, there seems to be a lot more contraction than expansion in
HP Mails First Catalog With Compaq
In mid-September, Palo Alto, CA-based Hewlett-Packard mailed its first catalog since merging with Houston-based Compaq Computer Corp. in May. The 32-page