Reevaluating Affiliate Marketing

| MCM staff

Affiliate marketing was all the rage during the infancy of Web commerce. In the e-commerce equivalent of locker-room bragging, marketers boasted about

Zones Buys IT Provider CPCS

| Paul Miller

Cost efficiencies were not the reason computer reseller Zones acquired technology products and services provider Corporate PC Source (CPCS) last month.

Miles Kimball Sold to Blyth

| Mark Del Franco

Eight months after parent company Sun Capital Partners announced its intent to sell Miles Kimball, the marketer of moderate-priced gifts and home decor

Production Page: Evolutionor Revolution?

| Shayn Ferriolo

Mechanicals. Waxers. Live type. Nonrepro pencils. If you’ve been in the industry for fewer than 10 years, those terms may mean nothing to you. But if

Will Spiegel Survive Chapter 11?

| MCM staff

The first quarter of 2003 hasn’t been a stellar one for multititle mailer The Spiegel Group. Even before filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on

Where Were They Then?

| MCM staff

Alan Bloomfield THEN Owned Galls, a Lexington, KY-based retailer of police equipment that he’d bought in 1980, after working at the company as a sales

The Top 20 Stories of the Past 20 Years

| MCM staff

In an industry as broad as the catalog business one that encompasses merchandising, marketing, fulfillment, and what have you it’s tough to cull a definitive