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The U.S. Commerce Department on June 18 imposed preliminary antidumping duties of up to 200% on $1.2 billion of wooden bedroom furniture imported from China.

On June 15, Jacksonville, FL-based maintenance, repair, and operations marketer Interline Brands filed for an initial public offering.

Pangea Holdings, which bought the Newport News catalog from the bankrupt Spiegel in May, had its bid for Spiegel

The Federal Trade Commission on June 15 told Congress that a national do-not-e-mail registry won

Tucson, AZ-based multititle mailer Crosstown Traders in February quietly acquired $35 million-plus Carlsbad, CA-based apparel cataloger Monterey Bay Clothing Co.

The U.S. Postal Service on June 3 filed an

Bowie, MD-based business-to-business marketer Jacobs Gardner Supply Co., which mails the Jacobs Gardner Supply and Penny Saver Office Products business supplies catalogs, was sold by founder Daniel Grossman to a management team led by Kathryn Morley and Gary Luiza. Terms of the deal, which was announced June 14, were not disclosed.

Direct Media founder/chairman Dave Florence has achieved much in his nearly 50-year career in the list and data processing industries. After successful stints as a sales data processing sales rep for IBM and Royal McBee Corp., Florence went on to found Direct Media in 1969, and the rest is history. But when he

Nonprofit mailers have until June 18 to protest an April 19 proposed rule by the U.S. Postal Service that looks to force nonprofits to classify their bulk mailings as first class if they personalize them with solicitations or other personalized messages.

May Department Stores, which on June 9 agreed to buy retailer Marshall Field