APPAREL: statistical overview

| MCM staff

BUYER DEMOGRAPHIC DIFFERENCESThe results of The NPD Group’s American Shoppers Panel show that catalog apparel buyers are from an older demographic group

APPAREL: trends analysis

| Paul Miller

Selling apparel will never be an easy job. “Just when you think you’ve figured out exactly what your customers want, everything changes – sometimes overnight,”

DIGITAL LEADERS

| Mark Del Franco

Big Toe Sports.com proves that even small companies can reap big benefits from going digitalAdvertisements for discounted products often proclaim that

APPAREL: market leaders – SPIEGEL

| MCM staff

Ten years ago, the Spiegel catalog was riding the working women’s wave into the ’90s. Sales soared for the self-dubbed “department store in print” as