Moore Medical Sold to McKesson
San Francisco-based healthcare services behemoth McKesson Corp. has signed a definitive agreement to acquire New Britain, CT-based Moore Medical, a cataloger...
Financial Reports: 1-800-Flowers.com, Transcat
1-800-Flowers Increases Revenue and Earnings Westbury, NY-based 1-800-Flowers.com (Nasdaq: FLWS) reported revenue of $213.2 million for the fiscal second...
School Specialty Buys McGraw-Hill Titles
Greenville, WI-based School Specialty is at again. The acquisitive parent of such school-products catalogs as Childcraft, Sax Arts & Crafts, and Sportime...
Charles Keath Changes Hands
CATALOG AGE has learned that Chicago-based Direct Marketing Services Inc. (DMSI) acquired the name, intellectual property, and house file of apparel and...
Illuminations Files for Chapter 11
Petaluma, CA-based candles cataloger/retailer Illuminations has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The filing was necessitated after the company...
Fannie May Parent Company Sold
Chicago-based Archibald Candy Corp. has agreed to sell its Fannie May and Fanny Farmer brands to Salt Lake City-based Alpine Confections. Terms of the...
Executive Greetings Files Chapter 11, Is on the Block
CATALOG AGE has learned that New Hartford, CT-based Executive Greetings filed for Ch. 11 bankruptcy protection in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District...
Schein Expands Further into Europe
It's a new year, but Melville, NY-based medical, dental and veterinary conglomerate Henry Schein is staying true to its old dealmaking ways. Last week...
NEBS Buys Stephen Fossler Co.
Groton, MA-based business forms and packaging supplies marketer New England Business Service (NEBS) on Jan. 7 acquired certain assets of Stephen Fossler...
Holiday Sales Good News for Most
So Christmas has come and gone. How does your company stack up compared with the consumer catalogers tracked by CATALOG AGE? Dallas-based Neiman Marcus...
Swiss Colony Cuts Staff Following Disappointing Holiday Sales
Multititle mailer Swiss Colony announced on Tuesday that it would close one call center and a production facility servicing its namesake food catalog,...
Taylor Corp. Buys Eimicke’s Holiday Cards Business
Yonkers, NY-based V.W. Eimicke Associates, a marketer of human-resources forms, sold the assets of its holiday-card business to North Mankato, MN-based...
Lillian Vernon Parent Buys Time Life Direct Unit
Time Life, the music and video direct marketing unit of the Time Inc. magazine division of Time Warner, was acquired on Dec. 31 by Direct Holdings Worldwide,...
My Twinn Goes Bust
Greenwood Village, CO-based doll cataloger My Twinn a shut down operations less than a week before Christmas, leaving some customers without holiday merchandise....
3Q Sales Grow at the Expense of Profits
For business and computer catalogers, increased sales came at the expense of profits during the third quarter. Among the 14 publicly traded companies...
Hanover to Sell Noncore Titles
Edgewater, NJ-based multititle cataloger Hanover Direct on Nov. 10 officially put all its noncore assets plus-size women's apparel catalog Silhouettes,...
Wine.com Buys A.K.A. Gourmet
Wine.com had good reason to cheer going into the holiday season. In early December, the San Francisco-based direct marketer bought Oakland, CA-based A.K.A....
Bulls and Bears: Are Happy Days Here Again?
Ticker symbol Company Price as of 10/24/03 52-week high 52-week low % price change last month Revenue per share T4Q % total debt/total capital DIRECT...
Franklin Mint No Longer Keen on Catalogs
After considerably expanding its catalog business in recent years, Franklin Mint is turning its back on the channel. On Nov. 12, management told about...
Petals Acquired by Southridge Capital
Shortly after cataloger/retailer Petals filed for Chapter 7 liquidation in November, its name and assets were acquired by Ridgefield, CT-based private...
FAO Schwarz Finds a Buyer
Bankrupt toys marketer FAO on Dec. 26 signed an agreement to sell most of its remaining assets to VGACS Acquisition, a subsidiary of DE Shaw Laminar Portfolios,...
Holiday Post Mortem Begins
Now that the holiday season is over for retailers, the big question is, How were sales? And though the major publicly traded retailers won't be releasing...
Lands’ End to Bow Out of Manufacturing
Lands’ End plans to close its only manufacturing plants, in Elkader and West Union, IA, effective April 1, CATALOG AGE has learned. The plants produce...
FAO Countdown Continues
Bankrupt FAO received an extension of its store liquidation removal option through Wednesday, Dec. 17. Originally the toys cataloger/retailer had until...
Collegiate Pacific to Buy Major Distributor
Dallas-based Collegiate Pacific signed a letter of intent to acquire $30 million team sporting goods distributor Kesslers Team Sports. Collegiate Pacific...
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