Financial Reports: The Sportsman's Guide, Geerlings & Wade
Looks like The Sportsman's Guide (Nasdaq: SGDE) is taking aim at profitability. For the year ended Dec. 31, sales increased 6%, to $180.3 million, compared...
Successories goes private
Motivational products cataloger Successories will be acquired by S.I. Acquisition LLC and cease being a publicly-traded company. Under the terms of the...
Financial reports: Office Depot, Dell
Office Depot posts annual results, announces consolidation of catalog ops Delray Beach, FL-based Office Depot (NYSE: ODP), which includes cataloger Viking...
Grainger’s Lab Safety buys Gempler’s
To expand the market reach of its Lab Safety Supply catalog division, MRO giant Grainger on Feb. 14 agreed to buy business-to-business horticultural and...
Financial reports: J. Jill, Musician's Friend
Double-digit top- and bottom-line increases for J. Jill Despite a 17% decline in catalog productivity, J. Jill Group (Nasdaq: JILL) reported a 21% rise...
Financial reports: Victoria's Secret, Restoration Hardware, Anthropologie
Victoria’s Secret direct sales up 13% Fourth-quarter sales at Columbus, OH-based Limited Brands, which mails the Victoria’s Secret women’s apparel catalog,...
January sales roundup
The calendar may have changed but the results are the same for many of the publicly traded catalogers tracked by CATALOG AGE. For instance, San Francisco-based...
Annual sales climb at PC Mall--but income plunges
Computer reseller PC Mall (Nasdaq: MALL) enjoyed a 20% rise in annual sales. But that wasn’t enough to prevent a 97% drop in net income. For 2002 the...
Ax falls on 300 L.L. Bean workers
Despite double-digit sales increases in December, L.L. Bean announced that it will lay off as many as 300 staffers during the next two months. In November,...
Spiegel lays off 300, loses CFO
On Jan. 31, The Spiegel Group laid off 300 workers from two of its call centers—nearly one-third of the 950 employees at both facilities. Spiegel laid...
Is Martin Zaepfel Spiegel's Mr. Right?
Say you're the head of a company that has seen sales drop 25% in two years, from $3.06 billion in 2000 to $2.28 billion in 2002. Nasdaq delists your company...
Deadheads and Boarders Unite: Alloy Buys Old Glory
The 12.5-million-name house file of multititle cataloger Alloy consists largely of fashion-conscious teens, BMX bikers, and skateboarders. With its Dec....
Concepts Direct for Sale
Concepts Direct is officially on the selling block. On Dec. 23, the Longmont, CO-based multititle cataloger announced that it would begin soliciting buyers....
Bulls and Bears: Cause for Optimism?
Of the 20 publicly traded catalogers tracked by Financial Advisory Partners for Catalog Age, 40% suffered a drop in stock value through December....
Bottoms Make That Bottom Lines Up
On the surface, the third quarter of 2002 was a hale and hardy one for consumer catalogers. Of the 15 publicly traded catalogers and cataloger/retailers...
Catalog Analysis: Understanding Catalog Financial Models
Given that number crunching is a core competency of any cataloger and Internet marketer, I believe that all employees in a catalog company should have...
Financial reports: PC Connection, Kennametal, Hanover
Annual net income tumbles 57% at PC Connection Computer reseller PC Connection (Nasdaq: PCCC) posted a 57% drop in net income for the year on flat sales....
Sport Supply Group narrows loss
B-to-b sports equipment marketer Sport Supply Group (OTCBB: SSPY) reported revenue of $18.5 million for the three months ended Dec. 27—up 9% from $17.0...
Familymeds buys Intelihealth assets
Pharmacy chain Familymeds has purchased the 415,000-name customer list, inventory, and creative assets of the InteliHealth catalog and online store from...
J. Crew hires second CEO in five months
Seizing an opportunity to hire a brand-new chief executive and reap investment capital in one fell swoop, apparel marketer J. Crew on Jan. 27 named former...
Shakeup, layoffs at Executive Greetings
Joel Hughes resigned as CEO of b-to-b multititle mailer Executive Greetings on Jan. 22. His resignation comes two weeks after the company cut 99 jobs...
NEBS gains on sale of payroll unit
For the three months ended Dec. 28, revenue at New England Business Service (NYSE: NEB) was $152.6 million. That’s down 3% from $157.5 million for the...
Financial reports: 1-800-Flowers, NBTY
1-800-Flowers gains on holiday sales Christmas was the most wonderful time of the year for 1-800-Flowers.com (Nasdaq: FLWS). The Westbury, NY-based gifts...
FAO receives delisting notice
Toys cataloger/retailer FAO (Nasdaq: FAOO) is going from bad to worse. On Jan. 14, one day after it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, FAO received...
APG Direct parent sold, catalog kaput
Huntington, IN-based Our Sunday Visitor, a nonprofit manufacturer/marketer of products for churches and religious instruction, on Jan. 15 acquired the...
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