Norm Thompson grew to sales of $ 110 million and 400 employees for 1995 , but had to cut back the next year when they closed the downtown Portland store along with shutting down The Primary Layer catalog . Cuts were made due to poor economic conditions . At the time catalog sales represented 90 percent of revenues , and the closed catalog only contributed around 7 percent . After the closures , they still had two Portland stores and three outlet locations in Oregon . Also in 1996 , Rebecca Jewett took over as president of the company while John Emrick retained his titles as chairman and CEO . The city of Portland gave the company a Businesses for an Environmentally Sustainable Tomorrow award for energy efficiency in 1997 . Following the 2001 anthrax attacks , Norm Thompson stopped using corn starch in the catalog printing process to avoid the appearance of any powdery substance on the catalogs
2001 anthrax attacks
2001 anthrax attacks
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