Senior Management, Investment Bank Closer to Buying Varsity
Varsity Brands, a manufacturer/marketer of cheerleading and dance team uniforms, is one step closer to becoming a privately held company. On May 28 it...
Financial Reports: Williams-Sonoma, Sharper Image
Williams-Sonoma 1Q Sales Up, Income Down A 12% increase in first-quarter sales was enough to prevent multititle cataloger/retailer Williams-Sonoma (NYSE:...
Financial Reports: Talbots, Restoration Hardware, Brookstone
Net Income Declines at Talbots Hingham, MA-based apparel cataloger/retailer The Talbots (NYSE: TLB) blames "severe weather" in February for crimping its...
Petals Files Chapter 11
Cataloger/retailer Petals filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on May 21, but president/CEO Richard Belenski says that the company isn’t dying on...
Investors Offer to Take Zones Private
A group of investors in computer reseller Zones (NasdaqNM: ZONS) has offered $1.00 a share for the common shares it does not already own. The group, led...
Library Supplier Demco Buys Rival Gaylord
Longtime rivals in the library-supplies market, Demco and Gaylord Direct are now part of the same company. On May 19, Madison, WI-based Demco bought Gaylord...
Financial Reports: Urban Outfitters, Vermont Teddy Bear, MediaBay
Direct Sales Up 35%% at Urban Outfitters First-quarter net sales at Urban Outfitters (Nasdaq: URBN), which mails the Anthropologie catalog, increased...
Delia's Receives Delisting Notification
Cataloger/retailer Delia's received notice last week from Nasdaq that it is subject to delisting from the exchange. Nasdaq says that the New York-based...
Tiffany Shines in 1Q
Jewelry and gifts cataloger/retailer Tiffany & Co. (NYSE: TIF) ended its fiscal first quarter with double-digit gains on both sides of the ledger. Net...
Financial Reports: Penney, Hanover
Penney’s 1Q Profit Sinks In a release, Plano, TX-based J.C. Penney Co. (NYSE: JCP) characterized its most recent quarter as “disappointing.” First-quarter...
Financial Reports: Delia's, Aramark
Delia’s Annual Sales Down 4% Losses continue at teen apparel cataloger/retailer Delia’s (Nasdaq: DLIA). For fiscal 2002, ended Feb. 1, Delia’s net loss...
April Sales Roundup: Catalogs in Bloom
The weather isn’t the only that’s warming up. As demonstrated by the publicly traded companies tracked by CATALOG AGE, many marketers are seeing business...
Financial Reports: Gaiam, Excelligence
Gaiam Reports 1Q Loss For the first quarter ended March 31, multititle mailer Gaiam (Nasdaq: GAIA) reported sales of $23.4 million, down 4% from $24.3...
Alloy Acquires OCM Direct
Teen apparel and sporting goods cataloger Alloy (Nasdaq: ALOY) continues its spree of acquiring youth-oriented marketing companies. The New York–based...
Financial Reports: Successories, Henry Schein
Successories Narrows Annual Net Loss Motivational products manufacturer/marketer Successories (OTCBB: SCES ) reported a net loss of $5.1 million for fiscal...
Net Loss Balloons at Geerlings & Wade
Instead of raising a glass at wine cataloger Geerlings & Wade (Nasdaq: GEER), its executives may need aspirin. The Canton, MA-based company had a first-quarter...
Spiegel Cuts 635 More Jobs
The Spiegel Group announced on May 5 that it will cut 635 jobs as part of its reorganization under chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The Downers Grove,...
Bronson Labs Buyer Anonymous No More
CATALOG AGE has learned that Amityville, NY-based Kabco Pharmaceuticals is the "anonymous" buyer that purchased vitamin and nutritional supplements cataloger...
Financial Reports: Systemax, J. Jill
Systemax Reports 1Q Sales, Earnings Increases While decreasing gross margins remained an industrywide problem, reduced spending and stringent cost controls...
Collegiate Pacific Nets 36% Bottom-Line Gain
A 22% increase in first-quarter revenue helped spur a 36% increase in net income for Dallas-based Collegiate Pacific (Amex: BOO). For the three months...
'L.L. Bauer?' 'Eddie Bean?'
It’s early days yet--but $1.14 billion Freeport, ME-based L.L. Bean is considering purchasing Redmond, WA-based rival Eddie Bauer. A purchase would double...
Catalog Analysis: The Internet/Catalog Financial Model
During the past few months, we've looked at several financial models, both consumer and business-to business. One of our conclusions is that there is...
Zones Buys IT Provider CPCS
Cost efficiencies were not the reason computer reseller Zones acquired technology products and services provider Corporate PC Source (CPCS) last month....
A Comeback for Chiasso
Three months after Chicago-based Chiasso filed for bankruptcy protection, the gifts and home goods cataloger/retailer was acquired by CCS Capital, a Northfield,...
A Welcome End to a Tough Year
For many of the consumer catalogers tracked by Catalog Age, the best thing about the fourth quarter of 2002 was that it marked the end of 2002. Pretty...
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