Touchstone Owner Blames USPS for Catalog’s Demise
Gifts and Home Decor Catalog Touchstone Announced in Early March it was closing. And owner/president Sarah Luce, who says shuttering the 20-year-old company
Cross Channel
Conducting a multichannel business audit
Conducting a multichannel business audit
4Q 2008 Catalog Industry Transactions
Company Market segment Buyer/investor Investment form Est. price (in millions) OCT 800-JR Cigar Cigars and tobacco Imperial Tobacco Group Acquisition
Fourth-Quarter Deals Die Off
Fourth quarter catalog/Web industry transactions
Merchandising from the past
How the past can provide future merchandise success stories
J.C. Penney’s Net Income Down 50%
The final quarter and full year 2008 results are in for J.C. Penney Co., and they aren
Sales from holiday 2008
Steep discounts. Cheap shipping. Free shipping. Multichannel merchants pulled out the stops to try to get consumers to spend money this past holiday season.
Consumer quarterly sales reports
There Were More Losers Than Winners among the consumer companies tracked by Multichannel Merchant. Five of the nine merchants followed posted third-quarter
These came close
Healthy Living Nothing nothing about this catalog is a salute to artistry. It’s the way catalogs used to look, with four to six items on each page. What
Best and worst in catalog copy
ANNUAL CHOICES: THE BEST AND WORST CATALOG COPY To adapt a clich When times get tough, catalogs become more similar to other catalogs. That’s because