Kid Territory

| Moira Pascale

What do you get when you combine a mother in marketing, a father in cataloging, and a need for children’s bedroom furniture? Kid Territory, a catalog

Breaking away from the pack

| Lois Boyle

Carving out and maintaining a niche in the catalog industry is becoming more difficult each year. To protect market share, several mailers have been beefing

GOOD TIMES-FOR NOW

| Sherry Chiger

Judging by early spring sales results, most catalogers continue to benefit from the still-strong economy. Multititle gifts mailer Good Catalog Co., apparel

Catalog Awards

| MCM staff

Judges of the 14th Annual Catalog Awards named 75 finalists in 25 categories from a field of 320 entries. Additional finalists in the online and international

Choosing the names

| MCM staff

Nth name selection: Generally used for test panel record selection. Every nth record is chosen. If you are selecting, say, 10,000 records out of 1 million,

BENCHMARK’99

| MCM staff

Reflecting the ever-growing importance of database marketing to the catalog industry, this year we’ve broken out a separate database marketing benchmark

Not as much business as usual

| MCM staff

Only 55% of the publicly traded business-to-business and computer catalogers tracked by Catalog Age and Boston investment bank Ulin & Holland reported

Online list shopping update

| Jane Zarem

With the mach-speed changes occurring in Web delivery of information, it’s time to take another look at the list business online (see “Lists in space,”