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JoS. A. Bank Clothiers reported that total sales grew 13.2% in third-quarter 2006 to $119.5 million from $105.6 million in the same quarter last year.

Reader Al Stanton recently sent in a request for an election-season direct-marketing-and-politics contest. Stanton suggested having folks submit either the most fitting theme song for Congress, or the best tagline to spur voting. (For the song he nominated Cher's "Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves," and for the tagline he offered "Get service back in Congress: Make…

Two activist groups who filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission earlier this week are attempting to redefine the commonly understood definition of personally identifiable information in an effort to get anti-online-advertising legislation passed.

Seven former officers and directors of former bankrupt cataloger Spiegel Inc. have settled alleged financial impropriety charges with the Security and Exchange Commission.

Sharper Image Corp posted sales of $38.1 million for October, a 17% decrease from $46.1 million in the prior year period.

The Talbots, Inc. expects to report total sales of $568.6 million for the third quarter, a 33% increase over $426.3 million in the prior-year period.

Meet the Broker features Tobi Milgram, who recently joined Teramedia Corp. as vice president of list brokerage. This Floridian’s heart is torn between the New York Knicks and the Miami Heat.

R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co. has acquired Banta Corp. for about $1.3 billion.

CVS Corp., the pharmacy chain, has acquired Caremark Rx Inc., for about $21 billion in stock.

If you Google the term “customer value” you will get back 156 MILLION hits (to put that into perspective, the term ‘customer relationship management’ has 36 million.) It is one hot topic in marketing these days.