Montgomery Ward Launches Spanish-Language Site

| Jim Tierney

Chicago-based Direct Marketing Services Inc. (DMSI), the multititle mailer that acquired Montgomery Ward out of bankruptcy in June 2004, has launched a Spanish-language version of the Montgomery Ward Website

Art & Artifact Parent Buys Bas Bleu

| Jim Tierney

Universal Screen Arts, the parent company of the Art & Artifact, Signals, Wireless, and What on Earth gifts catalogs, announced on Jan. 8 that it had acquired books cataloger Bas Bleu

Integrating the marketing plan

| Steve Trollinger

Welcome to our newest series, Cracking the multichannel code. The multichannel code the Holy Grail of multichannel marketing success is something that

The best of inventory

| Curt Barry

Inventory management and forecasting are strategic issues. Companies that recognize this fact can typically provide higher levels of service to their

Epsilon to Acquire Abacus

| Tim Parry

Epsilon, a business unit of Alliance Data Systems Corp., reached an agreement to purchase Lafayette, CO-based co-op database services provider Abacus, a division of DoubleClick, Inc., in an $435 million cash deal that is expected to close in the first quarter of 2007.

R.R. Donnelley to Buy Perry Judd’s

| Jim Tierney

In a move that surprised some industry watchers, printer R.R. Donnelley & Sons announced on Dec. 20 that it has agreed to acquire fellow printer Perry Judd