Boston Proper clicks with new site
Considering that the initial Website of Boca Raton, FL-based Boston Proper was little more than an online order form, the $60 million-plus women’s apparel
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Day-Timers launches Dorney’s
Day-Timers has long been a hybrid marketer, selling day planners, calendars, and time-management products to businesses as well as to end users. But with
Ebbets Field back home
Three years after selling cataloger Ebbets Field Flannels to Seattle-based sporting goods manufacturer Stall & Dean, the two cofounders have reacquired
HP opens door to Hispanic market
According to the U.S. Small Business Administration, the number of small and midsize Hispanic-owned U.S. businesses is now at about 2 million and expected
Into the Security Breach
I probably won’t win any awards for originality when I tell you that identity theft is an enormous concern. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently
Missing catalogs has coffee mailer steaming
A Stoughton, WI-based coffee mailer is wondering about the whereabouts of some 4,500 catalogs. Andrew Billman, cofounder of coffee gifts merchant The
Paragon Gifts sold
Another day, another acquisition: Private equity firm Reliant Equity Investors in March bought Westerly, RI-based Paragon Gifts Holdings, parent of gifts
Getting physical
Successful catalogers know what makes a print layout work, and many have also mastered the layout or navigation of a Website. But laying out a brick-and-mortar
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Searching for credit In your On-target onsite search article in the March 2005 issue, you reference The State of Retailing Online 7.0, a Shop.org study
NEW CATALOGS
BuyParker.com Take it home. Don’t steal it. That’s what the folks at Le Parker Meridien in New York are telling guests of the upscale hotel. In December