Redcats USA prefers plus sizes

| Jim Tierney

According to parent company PPR’s fourth-quarter and full-year sales results, the conglomerate’s Redcats Group has decided to discontinue the activities

A catalog redo for peanuts

| MCM staff

Peanuts are good, and according to the Peanut Institute, good for you. Bertie County Peanuts has been growing and selling peanuts since 1915, so the company

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

Hot type

| Jim Tierney

A digital printer is like a gym membership the only way to get results is to use it. But too few marketers are, says Jim Schleck, chief operating officer

Cash Crunch for Blue Sky Brands

| Jim Tierney

Blue Sky Brands, the parent company of catalogers Paragon Gifts, Bits and Pieces, Bits and Pieces U.K., National Wildlife Direct, and Wintherthur, is facing such severe cash-flow problems that it hasn