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The cloud that is the economic slowdown continues to rain on business-to-business catalogers. And unfortunately, no silver lining is in sight. During

This time, J. Crew means business. The company mailed its first corporate sales catalog on Sept. 8 to roughly 350,000 businesses nationwide, many of which

CATALOG AGE has learned that women’s apparel cataloger Monterey Bay Catalog Co. sold California Style to SBL, a Chinese importing company in July. Terms

It seems that Santa will be scaling back on his gifts this Christmas. Retail observers predict that holiday 2001 will see the softest sales in years.

Good telemarketing help is always hard to find, but a tight labor market in the Netherlands has made it even more challenging. That’s why a Dutch call

Lands’ End’s second-quarter earnings show that the company’s business-to-business division suffered what a corporate release called a single-digit decline.

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On Aug. 30, Lyndhurst, NJ-based motivational and promotional products marketer Awards.com purchased Reliable HomeOffice, a catalog of office furnishings.

In this occasional series, Steve Harris, senior vice president of Middlebury, VT-based warehouse design consultancy Bread Loaf Corp., answers questions

NEW LISTS MAIL ORDER GIFT BUYERS The more than 3.4 million households in the Mail Order Gift Buyers file include consumers who have purchased gifts through