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 ...

(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 ...

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, ...

Northeastern Pennsylvania businessman Seymour Holtzman is seen with Betty White in Beverly Hills, Calif., in the 1970s. White served as a spokesperson for Holtzman’s Jewelcor Catalog Showrooms for ...

I have very vivid memories about Service Merchandise, a now-defunct business with a unique ordering process focused on catalog inventory. For a kid, that kind of business model was the ultimate ...

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 ...

Question: In the late '50s or early '60s, I recall going with my Dad to a store downtown called Standard Sales. It seemed like the first no-frills discount store in the area. Do you know what happened ...