Pier 1 Readies Catalog Roll-out
A year after testing a mail order catalog in selected markets, home d
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Collegiate Pacific Buys Majority Share of Rival
Don’t tell Michael Blumenfeld you can’t go home again. Collegiate Pacific, of which he is founder/chairman/CEO, has agreed to buy a majority share of rival Sport Supply Group (SSG)–which he’d founded in 1991.
Brookstone Puts Gardeners Eden Up for Sale
Two months after it agreed to be sold to a consortium of investors, cataloger/retailer Brookstone announced that it was putting its Gardeners Eden title up for sale.
Finnish Paper Workers Strike Ended
Good news for paper buyers: An agreement was reached Wednesday between the Finnish Forest Industries Federation (FFIF) and the Finnish Paperworkers Union, ending the labor dispute that had shut down mill operations
Live from DMDNY: USPS Gives Marketers a “Leg Up”
Postmaster General and native New Yorker Jack Potter seemed right at home during his Wednesday lunchtime keynote address at the DM Days New York conference here
PajamaGram Revs Up Fall Circ
Based on a much higher than expected response to its Christmas 2004 and
Mother’s Day 2005 catalogs, Shelburne, VT-based PajamaGram, part of Vermont Teddy Bear, is sending six times as many catalogs this Christmas
Mackay Makes It Happen
Harvey Mackay, bestselling author and chairman of Minneapolis-based Mackay Envelope Co., has been dubbed “Mr. Make Things Happen” by Fortune magazine.
Live from DMDNY: Political Bedfellows
Direct marketing generates $165 billion a year in revenue in New York State. So having Gov. George Pataki kick off DM Days New York on Tuesday morning with a proclamation declaring June 26-July 2 Direct Marketing Week in the Empire State made a certain sense.
USPS, Union Come to Tentative Agreement
The U.S. Postal Service and the American Postal Workers Union (APWU) on Tuesday reached a tentative one-year contract extension.
Integration: The Multichannel Marketer’s Byword
“No man is an island,” as the saying goes–and for marketing professionals it goes double. Such was the underlying theme of Monday’s Multichannel Marketing Day event, sponsored by MULTICHANNEL MERCHANT, sister publication “Direct,” and marketing services provider Experian.