You Can Mail Businesses on the Do-Not-Call List

| Tim Parry

Many businesses sign up for the Do-Not-Call list, which protects consumers from telemarketers. But business mailers can mail companies on the DNC list. Should you? Dun and Bradstreet’s Andrew Kapochunas thinks so

Sporting Life Launching Website

| Jim Tierney

To extend the Sporting Life brand beyond geographic limitations, the Toronto-based retailer of sporting goods, athletic wear, footwear, and fashion will this fall open an e-commerce site.

Brookstone Bouncing Back

| MCM staff

Second-quarter net sales for gifts and gadgets cataloger/retailer Brookstone (Nasdaq: BKST), which mails the Hard-to-Find Tools, Gardener

Sales, Income Fizzle for Celebrate Express

| MCM staff

For the fiscal year ended May 31, sales at Celebrate Express slipped 2%, to $85.2 million from $87.0 million. The Kirkland, WA-based party supplies cataloger reported net income of a mere $43,000, compared with $405,000 the previous fiscal year.