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  • CATALOG CAPITAL

    Experts agree: It’s difficult to generalize about how publicly traded consumer catalogs are doing on Wall Street. For one thing, direct marketing companies

  • Magazine Circulation-Avant-Garde or Antediluvian

    The economics of magazine circulation haven’t changed much in the last 70 years or so. Subscribers pay in advance for a set number of issues, the publisher

  • Foster & Gallagher Springs Up on the Web

    Foster & Gallagher, Peoria, IL, the megabig horticultural direct marketer, has been taking a slow approach to the Web, but made a major plunge in late

  • OUTDOOR ADVERTISING: Friends Don’t Let Friends Drink and Redeem Coupons

    Sweetwater Tavern in Centreville, VA will never again underestimate the power of direct response advertising.To promote the restaurant, The Dan Rosenthal

  • Coldwater Creek

    Is there such a place as Coldwater Creek? The image conjures up some far-off place in the mountains, with cool streams and tall pines, a spot we would

  • SIMPLY Irresistible

    1. Send ‘Em One White Sock Too often, “we want you back” appeals are boring.But they don’t have to be. Take a look at what the marketing managers at Ansett

  • GOOD DEAL

    Direct mailers are still pinching themselves to see if the events of the week of May 11 actually happened.On Monday, the Postal Rate Commission recommended

  • Universal Solution

    In one year, online sales for AnotherUniverse.com have grown from 3% to 25% of the catalog’s total business.Steve Milo, president of the Baltimore-based

  • Hall of Fame

    Quick-name those people and/or companies you feel had the most influence on the catalog industry over the last few decades. Even harder, name those who

  • B-to-B Catalogers’ Market Leadership May Be Misleading

    For more than two years, direct marketing stock pickers have trumpeted the advantages of buying shares in business-to-business companies rather than stock