Johnny’s Plants An ESOP
For Rob Johnston, who has co-owned Winslow, ME-based seed cataloger Johnny
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Scrapbooking Site Considering Catalogs
Scrapbooking, the art of preserving photos, articles and other memorabilia in special scrapbooks, has gone from a quaint hobby to a nearly $7 billion industry, according to the Crafts and Hobby Association (CHA).
First-Quarter Sales Up 3% for Office Depot
Total sales for Delray Beach, FL-based Office Depot increased 3%, to $3.8 billion, for the first quarter ended April 1.
Reader’s Digest American Made: Not for Patriots Only
Every now and then, a catalog marketer will try to buck the conventional wisdom
Financial Reports: J. Crew, Excelligence, CDW
A happy end of the fiscal year for apparel cataloger/retailer J. Crew and educational products manufacturer/marketer Excelligence, and a strong start to 2006 by computer reseller CDW
Home Depot to Buy Home Decorators Collection
Further proof that Home Depot wants to be a major player in the direct-to-consumer home decor market: On April 25 the Atlanta-based retail giant announced a definitive agreement to buy St. Louis-based home furnishings cataloger/retailer Home Decorators Collection
Home Decorators Conducting “Blind” Testing
St. Louis-based Knights Direct has been testing custom window treatments within its Home Decorators Collection catalog since the latter part of 2005. Now the company has gone a step further: This month it introduced a 32-page HDC Blinds catalog.
Live from the E-mail Authentication Summit: Classes of E-mail “Absolutely Inevitable”
Chicago–Different classes of e-mail are
Design Within Reach Avoids Delisting
San Francisco-based Design Within Reach avoided potential delisting from Nasdaq after it filed its annual report for 2005.
Live from Deliverability Bootcamp: AOL to Implement Goodmail “Soon”
Chicago–Marketers looking for specifics on AOL’s implementation of Goodmail’s Certified Email system saw little new light shed on the issue in a question-and-answer session here Tuesday.