opinion & response

| MCM staff

Sounding Off on Show Business After last year’s Annual Catalog Conference (ACC), one marked with poor exhibit hall traffic, we polled our clients about

Out of School

| Jeff Ashcroft

Do you harbor a burning desire to upgrade your logistics and supply chain management knowledge base? Few of us have the spare time to go back to school,

work WITH me

| Frank W. Renshaw, P.E.

If you store a ton of junk in your garage, it isn’t harmful it’s just messy, and it doesn’t leave much room for your car. Pile up stuff in your warehouse,

What We Need Now

| Ron Hounsell

It’s time to develop requirements for a software acquisition project. Everyone knows what we need, right? If only that were true. The fallacy of this

Federated to Fingerhut: Good Riddance!

| MCM staff

On June 11, Cincinnati-based Federated Department Stores signed a definitive agreement to sell low-end general merchandise catalog Fingerhut to FAC Acquisitions,

Easy Reading

| David Pluviose

Book and entertainment products distributor Baker & Taylor Inc. was founded in 1828 as a bindery and subscription book publisher, back when the steam

Jagged Edge files for Chapter 11

| MCM staff

Cataloger/retailer Jagged Edge Mountain Gear filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on May 24. The $3.2 million marketer of outdoor sports apparel

Computer Mailers Big on Government Sales

| Mark Del Franco

Computer catalogers may or may not be in favor of bigger government but they are seeking bigger government and institutional sales. According to information

People News

| MCM staff

Norwalk, CT-based computer cataloger Micro Warehouse has appointed Kirby Myers to the newly created position of president, North American operations.

All Grown Up

| Ernie Schell

We all have to grow up someday, but most of us remember the carefree innocence of childhood, the oft conflicted soul-searching of adolescence, and the