Movers and shakers

| MCM staff

Apparel cataloger/retailer J. Crew Group named Kathy Boyer executive vice president of men’s business, effective June 3. She most recently was senior

Sears to buy Lands’ End

| Paul Miller

To get its hands on both a valuable apparel brand and a 30 million-name customer file, Sears, Roebuck and Co. on May 13 agreed to buy cataloger Lands

April sales roundup

| MCM staff

Catalogers are hoping that the axiom “April showers bring May flowers” applies to sales figures. Most of the publicly traded marketers tracked by CATALOG