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MetroGroup, a direct mail services company, will close its Rutland, VT plant in December, laying off 204 employees, confirmed company spokesman Michael Shea late Thursday.

Neiman Marcus Inc. posted revenue of $466 million for September, an 8.6% increase over revenue of $430 million in the prior year.

Jos. A. Bank Clothiers Inc. reported net sales of $49.9 million for September, an 8.2% increase over net sales of $46.1 million last year.

Today we meet Lisa Pollack, part of the list brokerage team at Adrea Rubin Marketing Inc. Pollack joined her family's firm in 1991.

The U.S. Postal service is proposing revisions to its addressing standards for letter-size pieces mailed at automation, presorted and carrier route rates.

A federal judge has issued a temporary injunction and frozen the assets of a group of online marketers the Federal Trade Commission claims used spam to sell weight-loss and human-growth-hormone anti-aging products that don't work, the FTC announced Wednesday.

In 1999, Vicki Bodwell founded Warm Biscuit, a $1.2 million-a-year cataloger and online marketer of children's bedding products designed in what she terms the "vintage" style.

Cheryl Scordato thought it would be a good idea to market college care packages that were a little bit more upscale. The result was the Web site from-mom.com

Size really doesn't matter when it comes to public relations. Any size company can benefit from publicity, but the practice is commonly misunderstood in the business arena.

Six in ten direct marketing companies plan to add staff by the end of the year, virtually unchanged from the 61% indicating they would do so during the summer. But both of these figures are down from the 72% planning new hires, according to the latest DM employment survey from Bernhart Associates Executive Search LLC.