Black Box Creates Another Spin-off

| Heather Retzlaff

Networking products and services cataloger Black Box Corp. is expanding its wireless offerings in a spin-off catalog devoted to wireless networking products and installation services. The launch comes on the heels of an October 2004 mailing of a 260-page security products spin-off.

E-mail Trends: Bye-Bye, Batch-Mailing

| MCM staff

Flexible mailing frequency, event-driven messages, and the growing importance of the “from” line are among the trends in e-mail marketing that practitioners should be aware of, according to ExactTarget, an Indianapolis-based developer of e-mail marketing solutions.

January Sales Roundup

| MCM staff

Most of publicly traded merchants tracked by CATALOG AGE began the new year on solid footing sales-wise.

Listworks Shuts Down

| Mark Del Franco

Hawthorne, NY-based list firm Listworks Corp. shut its doors on Feb. 1. Calls to the company were met with a voice mail message simply instructing callers to leave a message.