Dick’s Sporting Goods to Buy Golf Galaxy
Pittsburgh-based Dick
BlueSky Brands to Run Winterthur, National Wildlife Catalogs
BlueSky Brands, parent company of gifts catalogs The Paragon and Bits and Pieces, has signed licensing agreements to manage the catalog and Internet businesses for Winterthur Museum & Country Estate and National Wildlife Federation
Plow & Hearth Goes “Urban” with New Brand
Plow & Hearth is known for its country-lifestyle products. But with its new home decor spin-off, Madison Place, the company is targeting what president Michael Luce describes as more of an
R.R. Donnelley to Buy Banta for $1.3 Billion
Chicago-based R.R. Donnelley & Sons, the largest printer in North America, agreed on Oct. 31 to buy Menasha, WI-based printer Banta Corp. for $1.3 billion in cash.
Guitar Center sells online at last
Although Guitar Center has had a Website since 1995, visitors could not buy product from the site. But in late June the Westlake Village, CA-based retailer
Sales rise, earnings slide
Most of the publicly traded consumer merchants tracked for Multichannel Merchant by Wellesley, MA-based investment bank Tully & Holland improved their
New life for Lillian
In the vast ninth-floor conference room at the White Plains, NY, headquarters of Lillian Vernon Corp., president/CEO Michael Muoio is on the edge of his
Cuddling Up to Comailing
Like most everyone else, catalog companies are always looking for ways to cut costs. And now, with the pending postal rate increase, there’s a greater
CDW buys its way into IT services market
For computer reseller CDW Corp., 2005 was a record-setting year in a variety of fiscal categories, including sales ($6.29 billion) and net income ($272.1
Sam’s Club Goes High-End for the Holidays
Which multichannel merchant is selling a Cessna Citation Mustang Light Jet for $2.7 million this holiday season? No, it