In pursuit of excellence

| MCM staff

Since 1986, the Annual Catalog Awards have been recognized as the top honor of the catalog industry. And while catalog marketing has changed significantly

Bavarian Autosport, 1997-98

| MCM staff

Who wouldn’t want their car to look like this?” asks one of the judges about the cover image of the Silver Award-winning Bavarian Autosport catalog. The

New Catalogs

| Sophia Burke

Mimi a la Mode If you think shower caps are boring and ugly, you haven’t seen the Mimi a la Mode catalog of decorative shower caps. “Shower caps are our

Nabisco shelves gifts book

| MCM staff

The Nabisco Direct catalog of branded gifts has become the victim of its $8.7 billion parent firm’s new corporate strategy. In May, at the order of Nabisco

Users remain wary

| Shannon Oberndorf

If the first rule of cataloging is “listen to your customers,” online catalogers had better begin posting online privacy policy notices. According to

Fee structure in flux

| Mark Del Franco

In the commission structure used by most of the list industry, brokers receive a 20% commission per list transaction. But over the years, as mailers have

Creating the instant impulse to buy

| MCM staff

If you had your druthers, would you rather sell or describe? n Careful, now. Before any “of course” knee-jerk response, consider: We’re in the catalog