staying in shape

| STEVE DETHLEFS

The year was 1909. The United States of America consisted of 46 states, William Howard Taft was president, mailing a letter cost two cents, the Model

Promises to Keep

| Jeff Kline

Have you heard this FedEx commercial? You don’t want your GI Joes wearing dresses, do you? If your package absolutely, positively, needs to be delivered

PC Mall acquires ClubMac parent

| MCM staff

Torrance, CA-based computer cataloger PC Mall has acquired virtually all of the assets of fellow computer cataloger Pacific Business Systems (PBS). The

SQUARE PEGS

| Michael J. Wells

This is not an IQ test it’s the kind of situation that arises in DC design and layout all the time. Choosing the correct slotting strategy for a new facility

Out of Style

| MCM staff

If you were stranded on a desert island for years, would you be clad in the trendiest togs when the rescue ship finally found you? Of course not. Similarly,

Carbon Copy

| Roger Sklar

The need to grow a company in the international marketplace is a challenge that U.S. firms increasingly realize they must face. Since, after all, they

Natural Selection

| Ernie Schell

There are very few SQL Server/Windows applications in the catalog management software field. Natural Order from Indianapolis-based Natural Solutions is

great expectations

| Mark De Chambeau

A woman goes online to order a pair of black pumps. She enters women’s shoes into the search engine and chooses a site well-known in ladies’ fashion circles.

Variety Pack

| MCM staff

It can’t be a coincidence that in just one week, I’ve seen three major articles on diversity, in publications as different as a technology research report,