Rate appeal ruling due
An Appeals Court ruling was expected by early June on the Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers’ challenge to the legality of the January 1999 postal rate increase.
Lists & Data - Business-14-05-2013
Playboy adds Spice
Playboy Enterprises’ $100 million acquisition of the Spice adult pay-per-view service in March, a year after the deal was first announced, has made the
Pottery Barn kids around
Housewares and home decor cataloger/retailer Williams-Sonoma doesn’t break out sales of its five divisions: Pottery Barn, Gardener’s Eden, Chambers, Hold
Planning ahead
Carrie Van Dyck is co-owner of Herb Farm, a Fall City, WA-based catalog of herbs and related products. Annual sales, $2 million; annual circulation, 270,000.We
Polishing lackluster lists
Has your mailing list failed to generate much rental income lately? If so, several list industry experts have suggestions for adding value and generating
Scoring sales via telemarketing
All it took was two telemarketers. By moving two team sales reps who had previously handled inbound orders to a newly created outbound telemarketing department,
Playing private eye
Catalogers and industry observers estimate that 20%-60% of the names on a business-to-business house file become inactive in any given year. And reactivating
PETERMAN
On March 5, the day that its assets were put on the block for bankruptcy liquidation, the upscale cataloger/retailer J. Peterman Co. finally found a buyer.
Postal Service, PRC at odds over postal reform bill
In January, with the convening of the 106th Congress, Rep. John McHugh (R-NY) introduced a new version of his Postal Reform Act, now named the Postal
People
J. Michael Wolfe, the president of Longmont, CO-based Concepts Direct, was elected to the cataloger’s board of directors. The company also hired J. Benjamin