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New York–Cataloging icon John Peterman has told his rise and fall story many times since his J. Peterman Company went bankrupt and folded in 1999. Two years after the company closed, Peterman told of the bittersweet saga in his book, “Peterman Rides Again.” Then last year, perhaps having become sick of recounting the J. Peterman story countless times to promote the book, Peterman exercised the rights to the original company’s name and relaunched the J. Peterman catalog and Website.

Prospective bidders have until June 11 to submit bids for the Spiegel Catalog business.

Donald Mokrynski, chairman of list firm Mokrynski & Associates, has been named this year

New York-based athletic shoe retailer Foot Locker has launched the official Website to buy U.S. Olympic team clothing and merchandise.

InfoUSA has acquired The Edith Roman Cos., a list brokerage and management firm, for an undisclosed sum.

Upscale apparel and home furnishings cataloger Garnet Hill in August plans to spin off a 64-page catalog devoted to children

First-quarter revenue at teen products cataloger and marketing services company Alloy (Nasdaq: ALOY) increased 27%.

New York-based apparel cataloger/retailer J. Crew slashed its first-quarter operating loss but nonetheless saw its net loss for the quarter widen.

For most of the publicly traded catalogers tracked by CATALOG AGE, May was indeed a merry month.

Citing a $2 million revenue shortfall from products provided to organizations, biotech companies and government agencies developing new drugs, Holliston, MA-based researcher Harvard Bioscience (Nasdaq: HBIO) reported a loss for the first quarter.