Sales from holiday 2008

| Melissa Dowling

Steep discounts. Cheap shipping. Free shipping. Multichannel merchants pulled out the stops to try to get consumers to spend money this past holiday season.

These came close

| Herschell Gordon Lewis

Healthy Living Nothing nothing about this catalog is a salute to artistry. It’s the way catalogs used to look, with four to six items on each page. What

Marketing to giftees

| Tim Parry

The holiday season is over (thank heaven). It’s time to barrage gift recipients with catalogs and e-mail messages, right? Not so fast. You may be trying

Transcat Sales Up 8%

| MCM staff

Sales at test, measurement and calibration instruments distributor Transcat increased 8.4%, to $20.0 million for its fiscal third quarter, which ended Dec. 27.