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July 1, 2008


Provide Commerce adds Red Envelope to stable
Jul 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Jim Tierney
Embattled gifts cataloger Red Envelope found a buyer, as we reported last month. But it's not Creative Catalogs Corp. After a U.S. Bankruptcy Court-supervised...
Jockey unveils apparel title
Jul 1, 2008 12:00 PM, Tim Parry
Jockey aficionados have a new way to get their favorite skivvies: The iconic underwear brand two months ago launched its first apparel catalog. The catalog...
Sharper Image finds a buyer
Jul 1, 2008 12:00 PM, Patrick Barnard
Sharper Image Corp., which had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in February, has been acquired. A joint venture led by units of private investment...
Cheers for the 2008 MCM Awards winners
Jul 1, 2008 12:00 PM
After many long months of waiting, the winners of the 23rd Annual Multichannel Merchant Awards were finally announced during a special luncheon at the...
Talbots cuts staff 9%, gets credit
Jul 1, 2008 12:00 PM, Jim Tierney
Women's apparel merchant The Talbots announced in early June it is reducing its corporate headcount by about 9%. The cataloger/retailer expects the layoffs...
Movers & shakers
Jul 1, 2008 12:00 PM
The U.S. Postal Service has named Sam Pulcrano, a 33-year agency veteran, as its first vice president of sustainability. Pulcrano, who currently serves...
Pet buyer universe perks up
Jul 1, 2008 12:00 PM, Patrick Barnard
There's no question: People love their pets. The American Pet Products Manufacturing Association (APPMA) estimates that consumers will spend more than...
The deal with DHL restructuring
Jul 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Patrick Barnard
Rumors had been circulating for months that Deutsche Post would pull its DHL delivery service out of North America. It didn't, but it's taking some drastic...
B-to-B mailers start strong
Jul 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Jim Tierney
The business-to-business and computer merchants tracked by Multichannel Merchant got off to a good start this year: The majority turned in stellar performances...
No April catalog showers
Jul 1, 2008 12:00 PM, Tim Parry
The clutter in consumer mailboxes is clearing out. According to the Catalog Tracker service of Greenwich, CT-based list firm Direct Media, the number...
Federal judge, Congress defang FACTA
Jul 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Ken Magill
Merchants in May received two pieces of good news on the ill-crafted Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act, or FACTA. Congress passed a bill protecting...

MCM 100: The Major Players
Jul 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Melissa Dowling
Considering how rough the economy has been for multichannel marketers this past year, it's no wonder that our annual ranking of the top-100 companies...

Covering your rear
Jul 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Glenda Shasho Jones
Your catalog's back cover should be front and center when you're planning the book. Why? For many mailers, it's the best-selling page in the catalog....
Another quarter, another paper increase
Jul 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Jim Tierney
The third quarter marks the fifth straight price rise for paper. Most of the major mills have announced price increases for many paper grades, ranging...

Be a converter
Jul 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Stephan Spencer
What's the average site conversion rate for a typical merchant today? About 2.4%. That's pretty depressing when you think about it. So how do you help...
Keeping your co-reg clean
Jul 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Ken Magill
Is co-registration a good way to build a database? Well, it can certainly be an efficient way to start and grow a file, according to the experts. But...

Mailing replay
Jul 1, 2008 12:00 PM, BY Tim Parry
It may be July, but merchants are already feeling a nip in the air. They've got only a few weeks to figure out their holiday remail strategy, and that...
Listings
Jul 1, 2008 12:00 PM
New lists Muscle Car Review Source Interlink Media has released a list of 9,765 subscribers to Muscle Car Review. Most recipients are men, median age...

VT Teddy Bear: Monitoring success
Jul 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Patrick Barnard
Until a few years ago, the contact center managers at Vermont Teddy Bear Co. would monitor the performance of the agents by walking up and down the aisles...
What you can learn from a telemarketer
Jul 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Jeff Schmitt
Author Raymond Carver once wrote, You never start out life with the intention of becoming bankrupt or an alcoholic or a cheat and a thief. Or a liar....
Freight Train
Jul 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Rob Martinez
Shippers are shelling out a lot more for freight services these days. While that may be telling Noah about the flood, it's important to understand what...
Packaged Goods
Jul 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Thomas Kiesling
So maybe packing product into containers to be shipped to customers isn't the sexiest part of multichannel selling. But it is one of the most important....

If you can't beat 'em
Jul 1, 2008 12:00 PM, Melissa Dowling, Editor-in-Chief
The news in May that DHL was radically scaling back in the U.S. wasn't a huge surprise. The courier had lost billions of dollars here, and it was well...
A chat with Herschell Gordon Lewis
Jul 1, 2008 12:00 PM
Before he became known as the king of copywriting, longtime Multichannel Merchant columnist Herschell Gordon Lewis had a thriving career as a director...
Belmont loss a bummer for the other Big Brown
Jul 1, 2008 12:00 PM
Bettors banking on a sure thing weren't the only ones disappointed when thoroughbred Big Brown came in dead last in the Belmont Stakes last month. Parcel...
Shades of frustration
Jul 1, 2008 12:00 PM
A Multichannel Merchant staffer in February, ordered seven custom roman shades from the Smith+Noble Website. The site was very helpful in walking her...
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