Flax finished with catalogs

| Jim Tierney

Thanks in large part to last year’s huge postal rate hike, Flax Art & Design is a direct merchant no more. The San Francisco-based retailer quietly folded

A slow finish in 2007

| Jim Tierney

The fourth quarter wasn’t great for retail sales, and it wasn’t robust for industry mergers and acquisitions either. The volume of deals in the fourth

Catalog mailings do December dip

| Tim Parry

After two months of rising catalog volume, Catalog Tracker logged in fewer catalogs in December 2007 than it did for the same month in 2006. The service

Hotels at Home Adds Three

| Tim Parry

Hotels at Home, a publisher of in-room catalogs, in January launched titles and Websites for visitors at Fairmont Hotels, Homewood Suites, and L’Auberge du Lac Casino Resorts.