APPAREL: trends analysis

| Paul Miller

Selling apparel will never be an easy job. “Just when you think you’ve figured out exactly what your customers want, everything changes – sometimes overnight,”

APPAREL: market leaders – SPIEGEL

| MCM staff

Ten years ago, the Spiegel catalog was riding the working women’s wave into the ’90s. Sales soared for the self-dubbed “department store in print” as

FINANCE: Private money

| Paul Miller

Investment firms seeking catalogsFor years catalogers have been pleading their case to the investment community: that their established brands and their

MARKET TRENDS: Not computing

| Peter Girard

Computer mailers cool to consumersMore than 60% of U.S. consumers will own personal computers by the end of 2000, compared to 53% this year, according