Circulation Rebound

| Sherry Chiger

For catalogers, back to school translated to back in mailboxes. This past August, Catalog Tracker, a service of Greenwich, CT-based list services firm

Fashion Sense

| Rama Ramaswami

WE ADMIT IT: The Web site of eFashion Solutions LLC may look a little too pretty for hard-core techies. Once you download the required Macromedia Flash

Financial Reports: Office Depot, CDW

| MCM staff

Delray Beach, FL-based Office Depot, which mails the Viking Office Products family of catalogs, reported slightly higher sales but lower earnings

Cautious Optimism

| Mark Del Franco

For most of us, back to school evokes memories of blackboards, football games, and fresh, pristine notebooks. For consumer marketers, it also heralds

Mystery Service

| Barbara Arnn

Many multichannel retailers continue to miss opportunities to woo customers. The Chicago-based e-tailing group’s 2004 back-to-school Mystery Shopping

B-to-B School Supply Sales Make the Grade

| Margery Weinstein

School is back in session, and the business-to-business catalogers that target the education market are now reviewing their report cards as far as sales

19 ANNUAL Catalog Awards

| MCM staff

GOING FOR THE GOLD There’s always excitement in the air during an Olympic year, but at Catalog Age we have an Olympics of sorts every year: the Annual

Copy in the 2004 Annual Catalog

| Herschell Gordon Lewis

Why am I doing this? The catalogs on whose copy I’m commenting all are top of the heap, the 2004 winners of Catalog Age’s Annual Catalog Awards. In fact,

Selecting Order Management Systems

| Ernie Schell

There’s something about software that turns the sanity switch to in the minds of many otherwise sensible individuals. People who would never presume to