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Sandpoint, ID-based cataloger Coldwater Creek has promoted Georgia Shonk-Simmons to CEO. Shonk-Simmons, who joined the company in 1998, has also been
Data & Analytics
Playing with the Big Boys
What’s an advantage small catalogers have over large companies?’Customers are realizing that the category killers have product breadth but little depth'”Big
Prefer Drills Down with New Database
Since launching as a Web portal in mid-2000, Prefer Network has spun off a print book and is introducing a co-op database.A co-op member can select prospects
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Merrimack, NH-based cataloger PC Connection announced two promotions in its distribution center: Tom Dumais to director of shipping and receiving and
POSTAL
Double trouble Another rate hike possible in 2002 Two postal rate hikes in two years: That could well be the fate of catalogers and other users of the
To tax or not to tax
Key bills: who sponsored what Despite a flurry of behind-the-scenes lobbying concerning the moratorium on taxes from sales placed over the Internet, it’s
Petals branches out
Decorative silk flowers cataloger Petals is blossoming into other home products. The $45.5 million White Plains, NY-based catalog company is now offering
POSTAL
USPS MAY POST A LOSS Could set stage for additional rate hikes A month before the end of the USPS’s fiscal year 2001, Postmaster General William Henderson
The 2000 I-Merchant 40
We could introduce this year’s i-merchant 40 listing of the top online marketers with some sort of golly-gee statement about how quickly the Web has grown
Plus-size apparel market reveals a new shape
Between 1994 and 1997, the plus-size women’s apparel industry grew 20%, to $23 billion, according to the Port Washington, NY-based research firm NPD Group.