Catalog Success recognizes four industry professionals named to the top honors among catalogers.

By Reported Donna Loyle

Today, Autom employs 100 people, has five titles and mails a total of 4.5 million catalogs a year.

The Family Business

DiGiovanni’s father, Ignatius, a first-generation Italian-American who embraced Catholicism later in life, opened Phoenix’s first Catholic bookstore with his wife in 1948. Autom (whose name combines those of Saints Augustine and Thomas Aquinas) soon flourished as Ignatius forged relationships with local clergymen.