Postal Service releases rate case updates
The U.S. Postal Service in January released revisions to its proposed mailing standards as part of the pending rate case, which if approved will be implemented
Marketing
Revving up finally
Catalog Tracker’s mailbox was chock full of consumer books in November. All told, the service of Greenwich, CT-based list services firm Direct Media logged
Valuations, lawsuit hamper Hanover
Thanks to a November merger agreement, New York investment firm Chelsey Direct will most likely get its way in taking Weehawken, NJ-based Hanover Direct
Review and Renew
Multichannel merchants today face two fundamental challenges: Customer loyalty is declining, and competition is increasing. While these are forces that
Courting cross-channel Loyalty
It’s no secret that the number of cross-channel customers has grown exponentially in recent years to more than 45 million in 2005 and that they tend to
Tell and show and tell some more
We were having dinner with friends when one of them complimented the outfit my daughter was wearing. I bought it from Lands’ End, I said. My friend shook
Holiday highlights
According to the National Retail Federation (NRF), 2006 holiday sales were up 4.4% from 2005. Whether that’s good news or bad depends on what you’d been
Digging for gardening buyers
With the names of 6.8 million 12-month buyers available for rental or exchange during the third quarter of 2006, the consumer gardening category suffered
Sizing up SaaS
Software as a service, or SaaS, is arguably the most talked-about trend in IT. Bill McNee, CEO of Westport, CT-based research firm Saugatuck Technology,
Golden Gate subsidiary to buy Blair Corp.
On Jan. 23, four days after making a preliminary offer to buy the remaining shares of Blair Corp. that it didn’t already own, Appleseed’s Topco, a portfolio