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, ...

Service Merchandise was once one of Middle Tennessee's most successful businesses for decades until the changing retail landscape derailed it 20 years ago. Originally called Shainberg & Zimmerman's ...

The Present Co. was among the first catalog showroom retailers in Rochester, a family-run business where you could get everything from toasters to tennis balls to yachts. The company’s roots stretch ...

(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 ...

Fat, glossy catalogs used to proclaim the beginning of the holiday season, but times have changed. Today, many of us skip the store and order online, so most catalogs have gone the way of the dodo.

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