Specialty Catalog Reports Loss in Quarter

Specialty Catalog Corp., a wig cataloger based in South Easton, MA, reported a net loss of $39,629 for the quarter ended April 1, an drop from net income of $497,168 for the same period last year.

Sales for the quarter were $14 million, an increase of $13.3 million for the comparable 1999 quarter. The company attributed this to the addition of the sales of American Healthcare Institute Inc. and to the discontinuation of the company’s Paula’s Hatbox catalog.