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Looking to bolster its presence in the Northeastern U.S., especially in the Boston area, Melville, NY-based medical dental and veterinary giant Henry Schein (NASDAQ: HSIC) acquired $20 million Windsor, CT-based Barton-Cyker Dental Supply.

Thanks to a 78% increase in direct sales, Corte Madera, CA-based home decor and gifts cataloger/retailer Restoration Hardware (Nasdaq: RSTO) grew its sales 23% overall.

Canton, MA-based cataloger/retailer Casual Male Retail Group (Nasdaq: CMRG), whose brands include Casual Male Big & Tall, Rochester Big & Tall, and the George Foreman clothing collection, blamed higher operating expenses for its disappointing results.

St. Petersburg, FL-based HSN Improvements, the catalog subsidiary of cable-TV shopping giant HSN, is acquiring the Alsto catalog and Web business from cataloger/retailer Dick Blick Holdings.

CATALOG AGE has learned that Longmont, CO-based multititle cataloger Concepts Direct, which mails the Linda Anderson, The Music Stand, Garfield Stuff, and New Bargains catalog titles, will close at the end of the year.

Two years after retailer Sears, Roebuck, & Co. made business headlines by acquiring apparel cataloger Lands