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  • Fingerhut Deal Finalized

    Federated Department Stores agreed Tuesday to sell major chunks of its Fingerhut Cos. subsidiary to Fingerhut’s former owner, Ted Deikel, reports said late Tuesday.

  • Live from ACC: Signs of a Rebound

    (Catalog Age)–How much do you think consumer catalog sales declined last year? Five percent? Seven percent? More? According to the Spring 2002 Catalog

  • Live from ACC: Good News–Sales Weren’t That Bad

    (Catalog Age)–How much do you think consumer catalog sales declined last year? Five percent? Seven percent? More? According to the Spring 2002 Catalog

  • Live from ACC: The Pros Speak

    (Catalog Age)–What with continual postage and parcel shipping increases, not to mention a rocky economy, these are hardly the best of times for catalogers.

  • DIRECT Listline

    Orvis Masterfile Millard Group Inc. is offering new selects on its 812,704-name masterfile that

  • Live from ACC: When the Going Gets Tough

    (Catalog Age)–Sure, the economy isn’t great. But direct mailers are well positioned to ride out the tough times, according to Donn Rappaport, president

  • CMGI Net Loss Narrows in Quarter

    CMGI Inc., the Internet marketing services firm, reported a net loss of $125.2 million for the third quarter ended April 30, down from a net loss of $988.5

  • Live From the ACC: New Amazon Partner Surprises Audience

    (Catalog Age) J&R Music and Computer World cofounder/co-CEO Rachelle Friedman surprised attendees when keynote speaker Jeff Bezos, founder/president/CEO of Amazon.com, announced that Amazon had signed the consumer electronics cataloger/retailer as a partner on Amazon’s Website.

  • Live From ACC: Wientzen Tackles Postal Reform, Slow Catalog Growth in Keynote

    The postal reform bill about to be introduced in the House of Representatives “is a mixed bag,” H. Robert Wientzen, the Direct Marketing Association CEO, said in a keynote address this morning at the Annual Catalog Conference in Chicago.

  • Supreme Court Rejects Trans Union Appeal

    The Supreme Court has refused to hear Trans Union’s arguments that sale of consumer information generated from credit data is protected by the first amendment. The decision marks the end in the decade-long fight between the Federal Trade Commission and the Chicago-based information bureau over interpretation of the Fair Credit Reporting Act.