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, ...

(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 ...

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 ...