Get Into Bed and Breakfast With Stash Tea
Maybe There’s No Such Thing as a free lunch, but you can get a free breakfast and a bed thanks to The Stash Tea Co. The Portland, OR-based specialty teas
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DineWise Acquires Home Bistro
Gourmet Foods Merchant Home Bistro Foods is Back in Business: Rival prepared-foods merchant DineWise bought the company out of Chapter 11 on June 11.
Unkind Quarter for Consumer Mailers
If You Thought the Consumer Catalogers Tracked Would Fare Better in the first quarter than the business-to-business marketers, think again. Revenue was
Slimmer Pickings
The tall, skinny catalogs affectionately known as slim-jims are soon to be scarce, once the latest U.S. Postal Service modifications kick in on Sept.
Building better creative
Are you guilty of leaving your catalog’s front and back cover planning and design until the last minute? And when you finally get to the covers, do you
Sad Ending for Smith & Hawken
The Scotts Miracle-Gro Co. is Pulling the Plug on Smith & Hawken. The catalog and Website of the high-end home and garden merchant stopped taking orders
Inside the Spiegel Sale
For the Second Time in Less than a Year, Spiegel Brands has a New Owner. Signature Styles, a newly formed division of private equity firm Patriarch Partners,
Bookish Buyers Back Off
The books, music and video market totaled 3.5 million active names in the first quarter of 2009, according to list brokerage services firm ParadyszMatera.
Touchstone Gets a New Lease on Life
Gifts and Home Decor Cataloger TouchStone has a New Lease on Life: It was acquired in early June by Gardens Alive! TouchStone founder March Sarah Luce
Movers and Shakers
Foot Locker has named Ken C. Hicks president/CEO. Hicks, who had been president/chief merchandising officer of J.C. Penney Co., succeeds Foot Locker CEO