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Byline: Kevin Woodward The acquisition by merchant cash advance company AmeriMerchant LLC of CanaFunding LLC this week is enabling independent sales organizations to sell cash advance services in the U.S. [...]

Buyers Sound Off on Men's Runway NEW YORK The boardroom met the bait-and-tackle shop on the fall catwalks last week. In Milan and Paris, menswear designers walked the line between [...]

Byline: Tim Parry After months of posting declining volume, Catalog Tracker bounced back - sort of. The service of Greenwich, CT-based list service provider Direct Media logged in 530 catalogs [...]

Byline: Mark Del Franco Haband is doing it. So are Home Decorators Collection and Creative Irish Gifts. Dell's still at it - even after customers told it to stop. What [...]

In her article 'Little Improvements Mean a Lot' (see page OF10), author Karen M. Kroll details how today's robust order management systems give marketers a leg up. But that parable [...]

It's April and, for most consumer catalogers, time to plan for their peak staffing needs six months from now. Catalogers that do most of their business in the fourth quarter [...]

Andy Scott looks at what the next 12 months hold for the independents and the 'big three' after an eventful year for the paper sector and printing. It's been an [...]

It's hard to believe we've been presenting the Annual Catalog Conference for 22 years, but 2005 promises to be our best show yet. For one, we have two firsts this [...]

Merchants who want to begin accepting credit cards at their Web sites usually must sign multiple documents in pen and ink and mail them back and forth to a credit [...]

Holiday shopping soothsaying is in full-swing. Talk is everywhere about sales expectations and consumer purchase intentions. Up, down, flat, more, less--different days, different data. Painfully, missing from the dialogue, and [...]

Citing concern over data breaches, the National Retail Federation (NRF) is requesting changes in how the credit-card industry requires merchants to store credit-card data. The NRF detailed its proposed changes [...]

Whoever coined the phrase 'cash is king' wasn't running a retail establishment in the age of electronic currency. Whether it's credit cards, debit cards, gift or loyalty cards--more consumers today [...]

The holidays are over. Time to return that ugly sweater from Aunt Helen and the computer game little Bobby already owns. But don't expect to leave the mall with a […]

If there's a single cliche that drives us up the wall, it's the one in which small store owners are hailed as the paragon of one-to-one marketing. We've heard it [...]

11.1 Merchants Must Display Credit Terms Merchants who publicize prices in installments will be required by the Ministry of Industry and Commerce to publish the implied annual interest rate and [...]