Directing reader attention

| MCM staff

What constitutes good eyeflow in a catalog? KATE BOWLES: From a copy perspective, good eyeflow is all about hierarchy – offering texts of various sizes

Weighing the heavyweights

| Paul Miller

Who’s better for catalogers: Bush or Gore? It’s that time again – time to hit the voting booths, pull the lever, and (hopefully) elect the officials who

New House rules?

| MCM staff

As is the case every other year, all 435 House seats are up for reelection. The good news is that the more cataloger-friendly representatives are, in

CONSOLIDATION

| Paul Miller

NEBS to trim down B-to-b mailer hopes to save $1.1 million After buying several complementary business supplies catalogers during the past few years –

heavenly treasures

| MCM staff

this site boasts some nice features, but there is definitely room for improvement. On the home page, you’ll find a search engine where you can look for

Naming names

| MCM staff

A few years ago, we printed some prominent catalog company names and how our computer software spell-check prefers to rename them. Since it’s almost finally

CONSUMER CATALOGS

| Mark Del Franco

Where are the profits? 44% of consumer mailers and cataloger/retailers post 2Q loss Of the 18 catalogers and cataloger/retailers tracked, eight posted

MERCHANDISING

| Moira Cotlier

When it comes to sourcing and manufacturing merchandise, the U.S. is still the number-one place to turn to, at least among participants in the Catalog

More RedEnvelopes in the mail

| MCM staff

Don’t call upscale gifts purveyor RedEnvelope an online merchant. “We view ourselves as a multichannel marketer,” says CEO Martin McClanan. And the San