NEMOA was founded in 1947 by a handful of pioneering New England mail order companies - Johnny Appleseed's,
Brecks of Boston, Brookstone, and Deerskin Trading among them - as a professional group for discussions,
community building, and information exchange. Over the past 68 years, NEMOA has not only grown beyond
New England, but its membership has also become more diversified, including printers, list brokers, service
bureaus and other suppliers to mail order businesses. Yet its focus remains catalog and direct e-tail companies,
large and small. Today, with over 200 corporate members from across the country, NEMOA is one of the nation's
largest professional organizations dedicated exclusively to the catalog/e-tail industry.