Market Snapshot

The Outdoor and Recreation Catalog Market Segment shrank by about 2%, or 244,000 names, from the fourth quarter in 2007 to the fourth quarter in 2008, according to New York-based list brokerage services firm ParadyszMatera. After a slight rise in late 2007/early 2008, the segment’s list universe fell to about 10.4 million names, or back to the level it was at in the third quarter of 2007.