Just about every week, dozens of catalogs show up in my mailbox. Yesterday, there were 15 of them. I kept two: Gump’s and Smithsonian. A lot of people are surprised that catalogs even exist anymore.

LAWRENCEVILLE, GA—Nov. 19, 2012—While some view the printed catalog as a dinosaur lumbering quietly into extinction, retailers have reinvented the catalog shopping experience to amplify their overall ...

Not long ago, Christmas catalogs didn’t appear in our mailboxes until around Thanksgiving, usually just after. Now the catalog deluge starts closer to Labor Day, 2 ½ months earlier, roughly coinciding ...

A certain Wall Street Journal article has been causing quite a stir lately. The article discusses the fact that big retailers such as Bonobos, IKEA, Athleta and H&M are releasing traditional print ...

For those in the magazine and catalog printing and publishing segments, the past year has been nothing short of dynamic. Although there has been considerable consolidation and downsizing, these trends ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you’re planning to request a seed catalog in 2025, now is the time to do it. New seed catalogs get printed between mid-December ...

In one TV commercial from this year’s Toys R Us holiday campaign, a mom sweats through her cycling workout while her suspiciously helpful daughter tries to stir up a breeze. “I’m just gonna leave this ...

Catalog marketing is a sales technique used by businesses to group many items together in a printed piece or an online store, hoping to sell at least one item to the recipient. Consumers buy directly ...

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In one TV commercial from this year's Toys ‘R' Us holiday campaign, a mom sweats through her cycling workout while her suspiciously helpful daughter tries to stir up a breeze. 'I'm just going to leave ...