Lillian Vernon’s Golden Year

| MCM staff

By now, most catalog industry insiders and more than a few outsiders are well acquainted with the Lillian Vernon story: Pregnant housewife uses wedding

Mergers & Acquisitions

| Mark Del Franco

With five acquisitions, networking solutions provider Black Box Corp. was the busiest deal maker of the quarter. The economy may have stalled, but catalog-related

Allocating the Sale

| Moira Cotlier

Determining which channel drove the sale is key to continued multichannel successLike true love, multichannel marketing is a wonderful thing. Multiple

Last of Good Catalog Co. Founders Exits

| Paul Miller

Barb Todd, who ran Portland, OR-based The Good Catalog Co. since cofounding it in 1992, left the company on Dec. 31, the day her contract with parent

The Electronic Catalog: Allocating the Sale

| Moira Cotlier

Determining which channel drove the sale is key to continued multichannel success Like true love, multichannel marketing is a wonderful thing. Multiple

Mergers & Acquisitions

| Mark Del Franco

Busy Fourth Quarter for Deal Makers With five acquisitions, networking solutions provider Black Box Corp. was the busiest deal maker of the quarter.The

Last of Good Catalog Co. Founders Exits

| Paul Miller

Barb Todd, who ran Portland, OR-based The Good Catalog Co. since cofounding it in 1992, left the company on Dec. 31, the day her contract with parent

Fingerhut Fixing Credit Mess

| Paul Miller

Lately it seems that the only news Fingerhut Cos. could report was bad news. Following a rise in bad consumer debt, in October the company announced plans

Burpee Reaps Garden.com Assets

| Moira Cotlier

`New names will lead us to a new universe of customers’ Call it cross-pollination of the e-commerce kind. Burpee Holding Co., the parent company of the

Burpee Reaps Garden.com Assets

| Moira Cotlier

New names will lead us to a new universe of customers Call it cross-pollination of the e-commerce kind. Burpee Holding Co., the parent company of the