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  • Buyer Saves Fabled Toy Retailer FAO

    (Catalog Age) Bankrupt toy retailer/cataloger FAO on Dec. 26 signed an agreement to sell its assets to VGACS Acquisition, a subsidiary of DE Shaw Laminar

  • JoS. A. Bank Has Strong Holiday Sales

    JoS. A. Bank Clothiers Inc. reported that, despite snowstorms along the East Coast, it had exceeded management

  • Inventive Solutions to Debut Catalog, Web Site in January

    Inventive Solutions, Inc., a gadget wholesaler, will launch an Internet store at www.einventive.com and a catalog division in January. Currently, the

  • List and Database News

    U.S. Residential Telephone Connect Database MKTG Services has won management of this file of 10 million individuals who have connected their residential

  • Loose Cannon: Twelve Quatrains on Four Quarters

    Longtime readers of The New Yorker will likely remember Roger Angell’s end-of-the-year poem, which boiled down the events of the previous 12 months into

  • Lands’ End to Bow Out of Manufacturing

    (Catalog Age) Lands’ End plans to close its only manufacturing plants, in Elkader and West Union, IA, effective April 1. The plants produce luggage, duffel

  • Letters to the Editor

    [Re: “Loose Cannon: Postal Workers Are As Mad As Hell And Are Not Going to Take It Anymore,” Direct Newsline, Dec. 15, 2003, and “Letters to the Editor,”

  • List and Database News

    Relix Magazine VentureDirect Worldwide is offering the Relix magazine subscriber list. It contains the names of 16,575 active subs. These readers are

  • Kia Gets 36% Response to Dealer Mailing

    Kia Motors America has pulled in a 36% response to a mailing promoting a new online communications system to its dealership owners. So far the U.S. arm

  • Sharper Image Reports Holiday Sales Boom

    Sharper Image Corp. enjoyed a 30% sales boost during the three-week period ending on Dec. 24. Included was a 34% hike in Internet sales and a 21% increase