Executive changes at NEBS, Federated

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Groton, MA-based New England Business Service (NEBS), a multititle mailer of business supplies catalogs, has names Richard Riley president/chief operating

Alloy acquires Market Place Media

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New York–Generation Y marketer Alloy (Nasdaq:ALOY) acquired MPM Holding, owners of Market Place Media (MPM), for $48 million in cash. MPM is a media

Harvard Bioscience buys Genomic Solutions

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Holliston, MA-based Harvard Bioscience, a manufacturer/marketer of tools for drug-discovery research, agreed to buy Genomic Solutions, another manufacturer

Black Box acquires another

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Network cabling products and services cataloger Black Box Corp. announced yet another international deal, this time with $2 million Belfast- and Dublin

Harvard Bioscience buys U.K. manufacturer

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The U.K. subsidiary of Harvard Bioscience, a manufacturer/marketer of drug-discovery products, acquired Cambridge, England-based Walden Precision Apparatus,

The Dish on Databases

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When the topic is database marketing, plenty of other subjects enter into the discussion. At least that was the case in April, when Catalog Age sat down