The Salary Survey Says...
If you’re a catalog circulation manager making more than $100,000, consider yourself lucky. On the other hand, if you’re a copywriter making less than...
Equity Firm to Buy VWR
New York-based private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) has agreed to buy West Chester, PA-based laboratory supplies cataloger VWR International...
Cheerleading Catalogers Merge
Cheerleading-uniform catalogers Varsity Spirit and National Spirit have announced plans to merge. The new entity will operate under the corporate name...
Vermont Teddy Bear Cuddles Up to Q2 Increase
The Vermont Teddy Bear Co. (Nasdaq:BEAR) reported a 44% increase in second-quarter net revenue, to $13.4 million for the three months ended Dec. 31, compared...
Hanover Direct Eliminates Finance Post
Edgewater, NJ-based Hanover Directeliminated the position of executive vice president, finance and administration, laying off Brian C. Harriss. The move...
Financial Reports: Blair, Sportsman's Guide
Blair Income Up for Q4, Down for Year It was a good news, bad news scenario for Warren, PA-based Blair Corp. (Amex: BL). First the bad news. The marketer...
Grandparent's Toy Connection for Sale
Grandparent's Toy Connection, a Stamford, CT-based cataloger that markets “classic” toys to grandparents for their grandchildren, has put itself on the...
Spiegel Gets Reorganization Plan Extension
U.S. bankruptcy court judge Cornelius Blackshears in New York has given Spiegel, which has been operating in Chapter 11 since March 17, until May 10 to...
Financial Reports: PC Mall, J. Jill, School Specialty, Collegiate Pacific
PC Mall Ends Year on a High Note Torrance, CA-based computer reseller PC Mall ended 2003 with a 13% rise in annual sales, to $975.6 million from $862.8...
Moore Medical Gets Higher Bid
The dance card for New Britain, CT-based Moore Medical appears to be full. On Jan. 29, 10 days after CATALOG AGE reported that the $137.8 million medical...
The FAO Schwarz Saga Continues
Toys marketer FAO Schwarz, part of bankrupt parent firm FAO, may have narrowly escaped a shutdown when an 11th-hour buyer swept in just after Christmas....
ZelnickMedia Leveraging Lillian Vernon
ZelnickMedia is bent on making the most of its Lillian Vernon Corp. acquisition. For one, the New York-based company aims to beef up the gifts cataloger's...
Bulls and Bears: Ending the Year with a Whimper
Ticker symbol Company Price as of 1/2/04 52-week high 52-week low % price change last month Revenue per share T4Q % total debt/total capital DIRECT TO...
My Twinn Goes Bust
Greenwood Village, CO-based doll cataloger My Twinn shut down operations less than a week before Christmas, leaving some customers without holiday merchandise....
Improved Momentum in the Third Quarter
Based on third-quarter results from the publicly traded companies tracked, consumer catalogers had reason to be optimistic about holiday sales. Eighty-one...
Target Shutting Its Print Catalogs
Target Corp. has pulled the plug on all of its print catalogs: Marshall Field’s Direct and the former Rivertown Trading Co. gift titles, including Signals...
Financial Reports: Grainger, PC Connection, Zones, Guitar Center
Grainger Grows Profit on Flat Sales Chicago-based maintenance, repair, and operating supplier W.W. Grainger (NYSE: GWW) reported a 7% increase in annual...
Blyth Buys Walter Drake
Home decor and home fragrance manufacturer Blyth on Jan. 29 announced it had acquired $80 million low-end housewares cataloger Walter Drake for $53 million....
Big Dog Gets Bigger with Walking Co.
Santa Barbara, CA-based apparel cataloger/retailer Big Dog Holdings has agreed to buy $65 million footwear retailer The Walking Co. for more than $15...
Financial Reports: Red Envelope, Amazon.com
RedEnvelope Sales, Income Up Despite Ops Woes Despite sourcing and fulfillment snafus, San Francisco-based gifts cataloger RedEnvelope (Nasdaq: REDE)...
Financial Reports: NEBS, NBTY
NEBS Up on Safeguard Results Higher sales and profits in four of its five segments drove the performance of Groton, MA-based New England Business Service...
J.C. Penney to Cut 475 Jobs
Plano, TX-based cataloger/retailer J.C. Penney Corp. is closing its Austin, TX, telemarketing center as part of a plan to save more than $100 million...
It’s Bliss for Starwood
White Plains, NY-based Starwood Hotels & Resorts acquired $40 million spa chain/cataloger Bliss from LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton. As part of the...
Silvo Files Chapter 11
CATALOG AGE has learned that the parent company of Rolling Meadows, IL-based Silvo Home & Garden catalog, Silvo Hardware A Co., filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy...
Micro Warehouse Acquisition Nibbles at CDW Income
Despite a 9% increase in annual sales, Vernon Hills, IL-based computer reseller CDW saw net income slide 5%. But that decline was due to costs from its...
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