Article: Wine catalog segment grows.(accessories)

NEW YORK -- As the consumption of wine grows in the U.S., so too, grows the thirst for wine-related accessories -- a small but growing portion of which are being offered through wine catalogs.

Wine catalogs offer housewares vendors a means of gaining recognition and an opportunity for brand building through a specialty market, according to vendors. Moreover, wine catalogs lend a certain credibility to the items, because wine connoisseurs represent both the catalogers who buy the accessories offered and the readers/consumers themselves.

Not least is the contention that those who first see the product through the catalog but don't order may eventually buy at ...

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