F. Curtis Barry & Company’s Multichannel Operations & Fulfillment Blog

We want to remind you once again about a very important event, taking place in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, June 26 and Friday, June 27. The American Catalog Mailers Association (ACMA) has organized a groundbreaking forum that will bring together key officials of the U.S. Postal Service, the Postal Regulatory Commission and members of Congress […]

Save the Date:
National Catalog Advocacy & Strategy Forum
June 26-27, 2008
Washington, D.C.
The American Catalog Mailers Association (ACMA) has been engaged in continuing important discussions on how we can address the current state of affairs in the catalog industry with the USPS, and has been making progress on a number of fronts. These will be covered at […]

It has been seven weeks since BlueSky Brands shut down operations, stranding a number of catalog and e-commerce businesses. Now we’ve received an e-mail that the National Wildlife Federation sent to customers who have purchased items directly from the Federation.
Here’s what the e-mail said:
“There are still many opportunities to receive great wildlife and nature-themed merchandise […]

At our recent Executive Forum we talked about how rising postage costs, increasing paper costs and the fall off in prospecting response rates have radically changed the traditional catalog business model. While there are large, efficient catalogs that spend in the high 20-percents on the total cost to create and mail catalogs, many businesses are […]

The Wall Street Journal (April 21, 2008, B1) detailed a strategy by Macy’s CEO Terry Lundgren to localize store assortments to cater to what shoppers are more interested in buying. This localization—called “My Macy’s”—will for now will be only 15% of the total SKUs, which range from 1.5 million to 4 million, depending on store […]

No CEO needs one more thing to do. Everyone has been hard at work to offset the effects of the postal increase. But have you been proactive with your congressional representative or the USPS? I am concerned that catalog executives are not making their voices heard.
Recently, F. Curtis Barry & Company joined American Catalog Mailers […]

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“The products in the National Wildlife Catalog are being sold by National Wildlife Direct, a subsidiary of BlueSky Brands, Inc. National Wildlife Federation has licensed its name and logo to BlueSky Brands and receives a 5% royalty fee for the sale of each catalog item. National Wildlife Direct contributes a minimum of $1 million […]

Under the title “CEO Pinching Penney In a Slowing Economy” the January 31st Wall Street Journal ran a wide-ranging interview with J.C. Penney Chairman and Chief Executive Myron “Mike” Ullman III about topics including preparing for a recession, slowing store growth, and tougher decisions on inventory. The interview ran the same day Ullman announced plans […]

Online and catalog operations accelerate multi-channel strategy
ST. PAUL, Minn., Dec. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Gander Mountain Company (Nasdaq: GMTN), the nation’s largest retail network of stores for outdoor lifestyle products and services, today announced that it has acquired Overton’s, Inc., a leading Internet and catalog marketing company targeting recreational boaters, from Linsalata Capital Partners, a Cleveland-based […]