Live from ECMOD: B-to-b from Blah to Bravo

| Melissa Dowling

London–It’s been said many times: Business-to-business catalogs need not be boring. But many b-to-b marketers still struggle with developing enticing creative that also sells. The Consortium, a U.K. supplier of educational products, found a way to appeal to its customers with creative that works.

Circuit City tests catalog channel

| Mark Del Franco

Richmond, VA-based consumer electronics chain Circuit City has jumped into the catalog fray with an 80-page back-to-school catalog. The retailer mailed

Calling out

| MCM staff

Since its inception in 1997, corporate intranet software provider Mindbridge has grown at double-digit rates annually; it will hit about $5 million in

back word

| MCM staff

Cuddledown gets charitable with cashmere Did you know that October is National Breast Cancer Awareness month? Portland, ME-based bedding cataloger Cuddledown

Toy Story

| Mark Del Franco

The past few years have been anything but fun and games for New York-based cataloger/retailer FAO Schwarz. The purveyor of upscale toys survived two bankruptcies

Circuit City Tests Catalog

| Mark Del Franco

Electronics chain Circuit City is tuning into the catalog channel: The Richmond, VA-based retailer dropped 1 million copies of a Back

Promise privacy and security

| Jerry Cerasale

Because my wife is a teacher, September has always been back-to-school time in my household. It is a month of new beginnings and new challenges, a time