Freeport Studio, Summer 1999
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
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Crate & Barrel Home Book, Fall 1999
Pristine product shots balanced against just the right amount of text and white space make the Silver Award-winning book from home gifts and furniture
MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS
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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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
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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
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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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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
Smart Selections, 2000 (U.K.)
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
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What Price Profit? Profit and loss: what an interesting concept for the operations executive. Prior to the currently trendy effort to establish activity-based
New ruler for Animal Town
Kings Road Entertainment began as an independent film production company in 1984, but with its June acquisition of children’s products cataloger Animal