Patterson Dental to Acquire Medco Supply Co.

| Paul Miller

Multititle dental, veterinary, and rehabilitation products cataloger Patterson Dental Co. on April 19 agreed to acquire Medco Supply Co., a $40 million

Brady Buys EMED

| MCM staff

Milwaukee-based Brady Corp., the $555 million parent company of business safety and signage cataloger Seton, is buying one of Seton’s rivals: Buffalo,

Yahoo’s Search Life After Google

| MCM staff

Yahoo!’s Feb. 18 announcement that it would stop using Google’s search technology in favor of its own search engine including a new Web crawler, Yahoo!

Acquiring a WMS

| Ernie Schell

Every distribution center requires the functions provided by a warehouse management system (WMS) to facilitate inventory movement, from receiving and

Matrix Reloaded

| MCM staff

Direct-to-customer catalog management software saw a number of changes during the past year. Computer Solutions and Best Software collaborated on extending

Feeling the Effects of One-Time Events

| Mark Del Franco

Eight of the 13 publicly traded business-to-business and computer catalogers tracked by Catalog Age, or 62%, reported a weaker bottom line for the fourth

Potpourri Grabs Another Title

| Mark Del Franco

On March 30, Potpourri Group acquired Young Explorers, a Loveland, CO-based cataloger of toys and gifts for children ages 4-10. Terms of the deal were

Bill Could Burn Cigar Catalogers

| Mark Del Franco

Fifteen words tucked away on page 18 of a 46-page Senate bill jeopardize the future of mail order cigar firms. The phrase: tobacco products are non-mailable