Balducci’s spins off direct division

| Jane E. Zarem

What started as a little gourmet grocery store in New York’s Greenwich Village 85 years ago is becoming a multichannel marketing phenomenon. Balducci’s

ORDERS GLOSSARY

| MCM staff

Abandoned call: Call in which a customer hangs up before reaching a call center staffer. ACS: Automatic call sequencer, a less sophisticated version of automated call distribution (see below), without the flexibility and the ability to track call …

WAREHOUSE GLOSSARY

| MCM staff

When an industry term is on the tip of your tongue, or when you come across jargon that’s new to you, the words and definitions you need may well be right here. …

PICKING GLOSSARY

| MCM staff

When an industry term is on the tip of your tongue, or when you come across jargon that’s new to you, the words and definitions you need may well be right here. …

Oscar goes postal

| MCM staff

You probably won’t see the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences getting into the catalog business anytime soon, given its recent experience with

Office Products: trends analysis

| Paul Miller

The office products catalog business just ain’t what it used to be. Having had their margins squeezed tighter and tighter by rapidly mounting competition

DIGITAL LEADERS

| Mark Del Franco

Going digital enables Micro Warehouse to get new products into the market fasterWhen Silicon Valley speaks, Norwalk, CT-based computer cataloger Micro

Wilmar goes private

| Mark Del Franco

Moorestown, NJ-based maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO) cataloger Wilmar is the latest example of a business-to-business cataloger serving as the

Tidewater Workshop crafts an IPO

| Mark Del Franco

When Peter Caporilli was employed at W. Atlee Burpee Seed Co. in the early ’90s, his woodworking skills came to the attention of company executive John