(Catalog Age) Upscale cataloger/retailer Neiman Marcus is testing what could be considered a dinosaur of a concept: catalog showroom marketing. Since February, the Plano, TX-based company has set ...

At one time there were dozens of catalog showrooms claiming their prices were better than those at Sears, Roebuck and Co. or J.C. Penney Co. In the Chicago area alone, three catalog-showroom ...

W. Bell & Co., the beleaguered catalog showroom retailer based in Rockville, has informed employees that the once-popular discount chain will go out of business in the near future, closing 10 stores ...

The late, lamented catalog showroom retailer Service Merchandise is making a comeback of sorts. The success of a Service Merchandise jewelry Website launched in December has led to the test-mailing of ...

Service Merchandise, the one-time catalog showroom retailer that attempted a comeback through a mail order catalog last spring, has been tabled at least until early next year. Due to a lack of ...

Ernest Lefkowitz, a founder and president of Leeds Distributors, a catalog-showroom business in west Orlando during the 1960s and early 1970s, died Wednesday of heart failure. He was 83. In 1961, ...

Brand Names Sales, the Tonawanda-based local catalog showroom chain, will close its Dunkirk store next month. Richard Tamulski, president of the 49-year-old company, said economic conditions and ...

It may be a short story in a long setting, but when 86-year-old jewelry and watch industry veteran Seymour Holtzman and his wife Evelyn heard of the passing of actress and comedian Betty White, they ...