PARCEL DELIVERY: Donnelley Logistics buys CTC
Deal creates a more formidable competitor to United Parcel ServiceWith its Feb. 2 acquisition of CTC Direct Distribution, catalog printer R.R. Donnelley
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Patagonia, Winter 1998
When a marketer has won as many Annual Catalog Awards as Patagonia has over the past decade, it’s hard to come up with original words to describe this
Peanuts Shopper’s Selection, 1998 Spring-Summer
From bookends to pajamas to the obligatory T-shirts and baseball caps, the characters from the “Peanuts” comic strip appear on hundreds of items in Japanese
PARCEL DELIVERY: Know your consolidator
Implemented in January, the U.S. Postal Service’s worksharing discounts for parcels drop-shipped into the nation’s 33,000 local post offices – destination
Paragon parent buys Popcorn Factory
Wand Partners, a private equity investment firm, on July 6 acquired Foster & Gallagher’s The Popcorn Factory for an undisclosed amount. Lake Forest, IL-based
PAGE DENSITY
Andrea Lawson Gray: If “authority” is integral to your positioning, you’ll need longer copy blocks and larger photographs, perhaps with insets, to show
Overseas Success Stories
Among the U.S. catalogs mailing overseas, consumer books command most of the media attention. Yet it’s the business-to-business mailers that have made
Pardners in cataloging
Five years after launching a catalog to support its programs, the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department (TPWD) handed over operation of its Texas Parks &
A fulfilling opportunity
As the Internet becomes an increasingly viable sales channel, catalogers such as Fingerhut, Hanover Direct, and Stark Bros. have begun providing back-end
Parceling Parcels Strike?
The United Parcel Service-Teamsters strike in August 1997 seems to have convinced many catalogers that they shouldn’t put all their eggs in one parcel