IndustryEye: Catalogers’ Updates & People on the Move

The Warren, Pa.-based Blair blamed the negative numbers on a reduction in catalog circulation, as well as on the implementation of a new warehouse management software system.

CDW: The B-to-B computer products cataloger posted a 17 percent sales gain for the first quarter of 2007, from $1.59 billion last year to $1.86 billion. Excluding its Berbee Information Networks unit, which CDW bought last October, the company’s sales gain was 8 percent — $1.72 billion.