National Mail Order Association (NMOA) - National Directory of Catalogs 2008 Edition Now Available

National Directory of CatalogsStore this angel in big sizeIn this 18th edition, the National Directory of Catalogs appearance abundant advice on 12,230 of the top catalogs in the U.S and Canada.

Minneapolis, MN--(Direct Marketing Newswire- April 22, 2008) – Catalog business beats retail marketing—again. Between 2001 and 2006 the anniversary circuitous advance amount for archive sales was 5.95%. Those abstracts appearance that the archive industry has developed 25% faster than brick & adhesive retail that had a circuitous anniversary advance amount of alone 4.08% for the aforementioned years.

John Schulte, President of the National Mail Order Association (NMOA) expects this advance to abide able-bodied into the future. “The U.S. citizenry is abounding of baby boomers with money in their pocket; this demographic grew up with mail adjustment and archive shopping, so they are actual accustomed and adequate with limited arcade and ordering, and they accept little agitation adapting to web catalogs to shop,” says Schulte.

“Considering the behemothic baby boomer bazaar application book and web catalogs, with tens of millions of adolescent humans growing up application web catalogs, it doesn’t crop a ability to adumbrate a ablaze approaching for the absolute business industry.” he adds.

This abounding shoppers book up big sales; while absurd to define exactly, the NMOA puts Catalog and Mail Order sales at over $400 Billion in annual sales. And these catalogs accomplish acceptable barter for added companies as well. All sorts of companies use the National Directory of Catalogs to acquisition able leads to bazaar their articles and casework to. Printers, cardboard suppliers, artistic services, software and web developers, commitment services, abstracts administration companies, even artefact manufacturers baby to the archive industry.

Trish Hagood, admiral of Oxbridge Communications, administrator of the National Directory of Catalogs letters that the top 10 archive categories this year are, Books, Apparel, Automotive, Education, Gardening, Gifts, Food, Religion, Home and Sports. There has been big advance in the amount of adoration catalogs, jumping from 205 to 329 (60.5% growth), in the endure 5 years. At the aforementioned time, automotive catalogs added from 389 to 593 (52.4%), and apprenticeship catalogs from 400 to 528 (32%), during the aforementioned time period.

The National Directory of Catalogs is the better agenda of U.S. and Canadian catalogs with listings for business and chump catalogs. Catalog listings cover address, phone, fax, URL, email, artefact line, owner/president, distribution, and press specs. Available anon from the National Mail Order Association (NMOA) online bookstore or by calling 612-788-4197, The 2008 National Directory of Catalogs is priced at $945 for the book edition. People defective alone assertive sections of the agenda can aswell acquirement portions electronically at the NMOA website.

John Schulte
National Mail Order Association (NMOA)
2807 Polk Street NE, Minneapolis, MN 55418
612-788-1673
Schulte@nmoa.org
www.nmoa.org

About The National Mail Order Association (NMOA)
The National Mail Order Association, (NMOA) is a 35-year old able alignment that provides information, apprenticeship and business contacts to baby to midsize businesses and entrepreneurs that apply mail adjustment and absolute business approach for affairs appurtenances and services.

In 2007, marketers — bartering and nonprofit — spent $173.2 billion on absolute business in the United States. Measured adjoin absolute US sales, these bartering expenditures generated about $2.025 abundance in incremental sales. In 2007, absolute business accounted for 10.2 percent of absolute US gross calm product. Also in 2007, there were 1.6 actor absolute business advisers in the US. Their aggregate sales efforts anon accurate about 9.0 actor added jobs, accounting for a absolute of 10.6 actor US jobs. Source: Direct Marketing Association (DMA)