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Catalogers continue to agonize over the need to reduce costs without reducing offerings or services. Among respondents to Catalog Age’s exclusive Benchmark

Toy cataloger Grandparent’s Toy Connection has a new name, Toyclassics.com, and new owners. Three former employees of now-defunct multititle mailer Rivertown

As we come to the end of 2004 and think about what we will do to improve our businesses in 2005, I have one New Year’s pledge I would like to ask each

Office Depot’s Oct. 4 announcement of the departure of chairman/CEO Bruce Nelson did not stun some industry observers. After all, comparable-store sales

Another year, another rate hike: Parcel carriers United Parcel Service and Federal Express are both raising rates on Jan. 3. Rates for UPS Ground, UPS

Oshkosh, WI-based manufacturer/wholesaler Colonial Candle ventured into new territory in October with a 16-page consumer catalog touting its scented candles

According to the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), the number of twin births increased 74% between 1980 and 2000, and the number of higher

To paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of the demise of Concepts Direct’s five catalog titles have been greatly exaggerated. According to president Phillip Wiland, an article in the Boulder County (CO) “Daily Camera” stating that the $51.6 million mailer would shut its doors at the end of the year was incomplete.

Dallas-based Collegiate Pacific signed a letter of intent to acquire Orlando Team Sports (OTS), a regional distributor of team sporting goods.

Greenwich, CT-based Blyth, which mails the Walter Drake and Miles Kimball gifts and housewares catalogs, blamed a weak retail environment for its 13% drop in third-quarter profit.