Bluemercury

| Shayn Ferriolo

To provide discerning beauty products buyers with another shopping channel, cosmetics Web marketer/retailer Bluemercury is now mailing a print catalog.

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS

| MCM staff

Skittish second quarter M&A activity up just slightly Mergers and acquisitions activity was nearly as subdued during the second quarter of the year as

Black Box, Autumn 1999 (U.K.)

| Moira Cotlier

When customers buy computer networking equipment, they need reliability and technical know-how as much as they need the hardware itself. From its cover

New Pig, January 2000 Pigalog

| Sabrina Home

New Pig, a purveyor of industrial spill and leak clean-up materials, shows through its motto, “In Relentless Pursuit of Clean,” that it means business.

New Selects

| MCM staff

CHRISTIANITY TODAY The Christianity Today Masterfile is now selectable by presence of children, as well as by the age ranges of the children, their gender,

Habitat for Humanity

| Shayn Ferriolo

Americus, GA-based Habitat for Humanity, a nonprofit organization that helps build houses for U.S. families, used to sell a limited assortment of merchandise,

Freeport Studio, Summer 1999

| Moira Cotlier

The unique cover photo is eye-catching “and makes you stop to understand it,” said one judge about Freeport Studio, the year-old spin-off of women’s apparel