Drs. Foster & Smith acquires Hornbeck’s

| MCM staff

To expand its line of bird-related products, pet supplies cataloger Drs. Foster & Smith purchased certain assets of Rosemont, IL-based bird food and cages

J.C. Whitney Sold

| Mark Del Franco

Add Warshawsky to the likes of prominent catalog families, such as the Denharts who built Hanna Anderssen and the Cinaders of J. Crew fame, who sold their

opinion & response

| MCM staff

Newbie Gives His Props We just started receiving Catalog Age, and I have to tell you that it’s the most comprehensive magazine serving the retail, Internet,

Production Page: In Praise of Preflighting

| Stephen Beals

Most everyone who has ever created files for publishing has horror stories about the job that wouldn’t print. No matter how thoroughly you check every

CATALOG AGE 100: Behind the Numbers

| Sherry Chiger

Catalogers had better hope that what goes down must come up. For 42 of the companies on this year’s Catalog Age 100, year-over-year direct sales declined.

At Deadline

| MCM staff

PENNEY, EDDIE BAUER NAME EXECS Cataloger/retailers J.C. Penney Co. and Eddie Bauer each appointed top-level executives on July 11. Penney has created