Allpets, all the time

| Paul Miller

Pet products marketer PetQuarters is betting the farm on its Allpets brand – which is significant once you consider that PetQuarters bought Allpets less

Web is the Rx for Moore Medical

| Mark Del Franco

Medical and surgical supplies cataloger Moore Medical is putting its money where it hopes new customers are: the Internet.The New Britain, CT-based business-to-business

Magram, Brownstone back in the mail

| Mark Del Franco

Under a new owner, women’s apparel catalogs Lew Magram and Brownstone Studio are back in the mail, just three months after parent company StyleSite Marketing

Tallying the Net results

| Shayn Ferriolo

Cynthia Riggs is the owner of Making It Big, a Cotati, CA-based catalog that sells plus-size natural-fiber clothing. Annual sales, $2.5 million; annual

DIVESTITURES

| Paul Miller

Playboy sells last catalog Critics’ Choice Video bought by fulfillment start-up After agreeing to sell its Collectors’ Choice Music catalog in June, Playboy

The Nature Co. soon to be extinct

| Mark Del Franco

Call it Darwinism among catalogers. Four years ago, Bethesda, MD-based Discovery Communications (the parent company of cable television network The Discovery

STRATEGIES

| Paul Miller

Ross-Simons gets investment Freeman Spogli takes a majority share With an eye on speedier growth and richer resources, on July 25, jewelry, gifts, and

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS

| MCM staff

Skittish second quarter M&A activity up just slightly Mergers and acquisitions activity was nearly as subdued during the second quarter of the year as

RESTRUCTURING

| Paul Miller

Schein to cut 300 jobs Layoffs expected to save medical supplies cataloger $15 million a yearIn a restructuring effort designed to improve profitability,

Just for Kids rises again

| Shayn Ferriolo

Storybook Inc., which produces the Storybook Heirlooms catalog of special-occasion apparel for girls ages five to seven, is relaunching costumes and apparel