Recording customers in motion

| MCM staff

During the next five years, retail store sales are projected to grow by 2.4%. In contrast, e-commerce sales are expected to climb by 13%-14%. Equally

Postal reform time line

| MCM staff

January 1995 Rep. John M. McHugh (D-NY) is appointed U.S. Postal Service subcommittee chairman. June 1996 McHugh introduces H.R. 3717, the first postal

CLEANING UP

| Tim Parry

With a postal rate increase on the horizon, you might expect catalogers to be agonizing over their mailing plans and slashing circulation. But so far,

Epsilon to Acquire Abacus

| Tim Parry

Epsilon, a business unit of Alliance Data Systems Corp., reached an agreement to purchase Lafayette, CO-based co-op database services provider Abacus, a division of DoubleClick, Inc., in an $435 million cash deal that is expected to close in the first quarter of 2007.