Lands' End, the mail-order retailer said its second quarter earnings rose to 20 cents a share, compared with 14 cents a year earlier.

Programmer's Paradise is one of the largest mail-order retailers of computer software, and they're trying to make their catalog more interesting by including feature articles of interest to software developers.

In the mid-1980's, the mail-order retailer started to notice repetitive strain injuries among its shoe makers, box packers and computer users in its "800" number marketing center.

For instance, the Faith Mountain Company, a small mail-order retailer in Sperryville, Va., is increasing its mailings 30 percent.

Ltd. - by far the most important mail-order general retailer in Canada in the early twentieth century, it was also a provider of house kits from 1910 to 1932.

By 1982, Capital City operated out of a large warehouse in Madison that they shared with their largest account, mail-order retailer Westfield Comics.

He wants steady growth and avoids all technology companies except what he calls "soft-tech" - companies like CDW Computer Centers, a mail-order retailer.

A case in point is Amazon.com, which continues to solidify itself not only as the biggest online store but as one of the country's biggest mail-order retailers.

Britain's biggest mail-order retailer, Great Universal Stores P.L.C., said it would sell up to 25 percent of its Burberry fashion brand to the public within 18 months.

The mail-order retailer reported earnings of $5.5 million in its third quarter ended Oct. 30, down 5 percent from the year earlier.