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AeroGrow International Inc. generated $6.3 million in revenue during the quarter ended June 30, compared with $822,000 a year ago. The company's net loss shrank from $2.1 million to $2 million.

Consumer and business-to-business e-mail list prices have declined over the last year, while the cost of magazine and newsletter postal lists have risen $6/M and $5/M respectively, according the Worldata Summer 2007 List Price Index.

Membership club and insurance direct marketer Affinion Group Inc. reported net revenues of $333.3 million for the second quarter that ended June 30, reflecting a $59.7 million increase compared to the second quarter of 2006. Figures from both years are unaudited.

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My dear readers, I have failed today. A column? I have none to offer you. This week, the follies of DM must stay Unscathed, though there is ever more to rue.

Direct mail printing and marketing firm Vertis Communications saw its second-quarter losses grow to $19.7 million from $5 in the same period a year ago, largely due to declines in the freestanding ad insert market.

The Nonprofit Federation of the Direct Marketing Association (DMANF) has named the US division of Doctors Without Borders/M

Today we meet Bert DesRosiers, a list broker at Glaser Direct Inc. DesRosiers sold his graphic arts wholesale supplies business in 1994. He then spent the next three years doing part-time consulting work until he joined Glaser in 1997.

Merger and acquisition activity in the direct marketing industry increased exponentially in the first half of 2007, according to Petsky Prunier, an investment bank.

The U.S. Postal Service posted a net loss of $659 million for the third quarter.