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According to McFeely’s, it’s hip to be square if you’re a screw drive. And the purveyor of square drive screws and other woodworking tools clearly demonstrates

An awesome offering. The most complete I have seen. It gets bigger and better every year.” That’s how one of the panelists describes the merchandising

It’s near twilight in a little country village in Provence. The streetlamps are glowing yellow as the last rays of the sun begin to fade. Through the

Viking Office Products chairman Irwin Helford, who took over a $13 million office supplies catalog in 1984 and turned it into a $1.7 billion industry

Blanketed with lush red, pink, and yellow roses, “this cover is a winner!” exclaims one judge, describing the Arena Rose Co.’s 1999 Garden Roses of Distinction

After expanding into various product niches over the years, including gifts, foods, and children’s products, 85-year-old Foster & Gallagher is feeding

Options for dealing with a shrinking warehouseA growing catalog business with more than $3 million in annual sales, Old Saybrook, CT-based rock ‘n’ roll

Two years ago, when U.S.-born Jennifer Grimes founded Dublin-based home products catalog Grimes & Co., Ireland represented a mail order frontier. “I had

Trying to sell merchandise for Porsches without using an image of one of the gleaming high-performance road machines on the catalog cover is, well, like

With copy that “really speaks to retailers” and “an incredible amount of exclusive and new merchandise,” Jackson & Perkins rises above the field and captures