Editor’s Take: Charts, Change and a Little Controversy

The name adjustment might not sound like much, but this chart has a controversial history to it, and I’m actually looking to diffuse a little of it. And let’s face it: Catalog Success is hardly a controversial publication. Nevertheless, part of this controversy relates to calling those catalogers in the chart the “top” 200. I always found that misleading. Unlike some of the Fortune, Inc. and Billboard charts, among others, ours wasn’t created solely as a means of ranking companies by how big they are, sales-wise or even profits-wise.