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In the mid ’90s, expanding internationally was a great way for catalogers to conquer new markets and reap additional revenue. But now some catalogers

FREDERICK’S OF HOLLYWOOD Holiday catalog sales at women’s apparel marketer Frederick’s of Hollywood were up 3% from last year, says vice president of

Less than a week after The Conference Board reported gains in consumer confidence for January, so, too, did the Univ. of Michigan Surveys of Consumers

Farewell, franc; goodbye, guilder. The euro is now the official currency of 12 members of the European Community (EC): Austria, Belgium, Finland, France,

As a kid, Jerry Cohen, founder of Seattle-based cataloger Ebbets Field Flannels, was enthralled by baseball uniforms. Even today, while some fans are

Multititle mailer Knight’s Direct has quietly been making some big changes during the past year. In late December, the tightly held holding company changed

You can have too much of a good thing. That’s why Edmund Optics recently launched an overstocks catalog, Anchor Optical Surplus. The Barrington, NJ-based

Although the war on terrorism has consumed much of their attention, federal legislators aren’t neglecting privacy-related issues. For instance, at press

While in China two years ago, I stopped at a general store/supermarket in a dusty neighborhood on the outskirts of Nanning, a characterless, charmless

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