Freeport Studio, Summer 1999

| Moira Cotlier

The unique cover photo is eye-catching “and makes you stop to understand it,” said one judge about Freeport Studio, the year-old spin-off of women’s apparel

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS

| MCM staff

Skittish second quarter M&A activity up just slightly Mergers and acquisitions activity was nearly as subdued during the second quarter of the year as

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| MCM staff

Pip, Pip, hurray! If you’re a regular customer of pet products cataloger Doctors Foster & Smith, you might have seen Pippi on the cover of its January

Catalog Copy

| Herschell Gordon Lewis

Clarity triumphs… as well it should The tumult and shouting have died. The Gold Award winners have their award plaques. Some Annual Catalog Award winners

Smart Selections, 2000 (U.K.)

| Melissa Dowling

Finally, said one of the Annual Catalog Awards judges, “an office supplies catalog that isn’t as dry as a bone.” Trust a British catalog company to know

people

| Liz Kislik

Too Close for Comfort Depending on which surveys you read, online consumers now rank their concern for the security of their personal information above

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| MCM staff

Bean keeps it brief OK, by now we all know that the 88-year-old L.L. Bean is a mail order master. But a recent shopping experience with the venerable

New ruler for Animal Town

| Mark Del Franco

Kings Road Entertainment began as an independent film production company in 1984, but with its June acquisition of children’s products cataloger Animal

online fulfillment

| MCM staff

What Price Profit? Profit and loss: what an interesting concept for the operations executive. Prior to the currently trendy effort to establish activity-based