MCM 100: The List is In

Notable deals of the past 12 months

JUNE 2009

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  Horticultural mailer Gardens Alive! bought home decor cataloger Touchstone

JULY 2009

• German mail order company Bon Prix purchased swimwear cataloger/retailer Venus Swimwear

AUGUST 2009

• Eddie Bauer Holdings, which had filed for Chapter 11 in June, is sold to Golden Gate Capital (Orchard Brands) for $286 million in cash

SEPTEMBER 2009

• Gardens Alive! acquired the U.S. operations of Thompson & Morgan Seedsmen

• Cabela's sold its Van Dyke's Taxidermy unit to McKenzie Sports Products

OCTOBER 2009

• VWR Education acquired X-treme Geek, a direct marketer of science-related gifts

• Cabela's sold wildlife-art division Wild Wings to RDE Acquisition Co.

NOVEMBER 2009

• Airgas acquired Tri-Tech, a distributor of industrial, medical and specialty gases

DECEMBER 2009

• 1-800-Flowers.com sold its home and children's titles to PH International, an affiliate of Evergreen Enterprises

• Airgas acquired Fitch Industrial & Welding Supply, a gas and welding supply distributor

• Henry Schein merged its U.S. Animal Health businesses and Butler Animal Health Supply into a new company called Butler Schein Animal Health

FEBRUARY 2009

• Private equity firm Monomoy Capital Partners, which owns Boston Apparel Group, acquired women's apparel cataloger Casual Living USA from the Thompson Group

• Dell bought Kace, a systems management appliance company

MARCH 2010

• Sport Supply Group entered into a merger agreement to be acquired by an affiliate of ONCAP Management Partners

• Orchard Brands acquired home goods title Linen Source from Thompson Group

APRIL 2010

• Sport Supply Group bought the assets of team sports distributors Coaches Sports Corner and Greg Larson Sports

MAY 2010

• Deluxe Corp. acquired Custom Direct, a direct-to-consumer provider

Who owns what

MANY OF THE MCM 100 ARE MULTITITLE MAILERS. HERE'S A GUIDE TO WHO OWNS WHAT:

• 1-800-FLOWERS.COM includes 1-800-Flowers.com, Ambrosia, Cheryl & Co., Fannie May, Geerlings & Wade, The Popcorn Factory

• ARISTOTLE CORP. includes American Educational Products, Nasco, Summit Learning, Triarco

• CASUAL MALE includes Casual Male XL, Rochester Big & Tall Clothing

• CHARMING SHOPPES includes Figi's, Catherines, Shoetrader.com

• GARDENS ALIVE! includes Bits and Pieces, Breck's, Gurney Seeds, Henry Field's, Michigan Bulb, The Paragon and Spring Hill Nurseries, Thompson & Morgan Seedsmen, TouchStone

• HANOVER DIRECT includes Company Kids, The Company Store, Domestications, International Male, Silhouettes, Undergear

• HSNI includes Ballard Designs, Frontgate, Garnet Hill, Improvements, Smith+Noble, The Territory Ahead, TravelSmith

• INTERLINE BRANDS includes Barnett, Copperfield Chimney Supply, Hardware Express, Leran, Maintenance USA, Sexauer, SunStar Lighting, U.S. Lock, Wilmar

• ORCHARD BRANDS includes Appleseed's, Bedford Fair Lifestyles, Blair Corp., Brownstone Studio, Coward Shoes, Draper's & Damon's, Eddie Bauer, Gold Violin, Haband, Intimate Appeal, Lew Magram, Linen Source, Monterey Bay Clothing Co., Norm Thompson Outfitters, Old Pueblo Traders, Sahalie, Solutions, The Tog Shop, Willow Ridge, WinterSilks

• PATTERSON COS. includes Masune First Aid & Safety, Medco, Sammons Preston, Webster Veterinary

• POTPOURRI GROUP includes Back in the Saddle, Catalog Favorites, Expressions, In the Company of Dogs, Nature's Jewelry, NorthStyle, Pyramid Collection, The Stitchery, Serengeti, Whatever Works

• PROVIDE COMMERCE owns Cherry Moon Farms, RedEnvelope, ProFlowers, Secret Spoon and Shari's Berries

• SCHOOL SPECIALTY includes ABC School Supply, Abilitations, Brodhead Garrett, Childcraft, Delta Education, Frey Scientific, Hammond & Stephens, Sax Arts and Crafts, Sportime

• SIGNATURE STYLES includes Spiegel, Newport News, Shape FX

• STAPLES includes Corporate Express, Quill Corp., Smilemakers, Medical Arts Press

• SYSTEMAX owns Circuit City, CompUSA and TigerDirect

• THE SWISS COLONY includes Ashro, Ginny's, Home Visions, Midnight Velvet, Monroe and Main, Montgomery Ward, EaceTeamGear.com, Room for Color, Seventh Avenue, The Swiss Colony, The Tender Fillet, Through the Country Door

• TAYLOR CORP. includes Colorful Images, Current, G. Neil, Lillian Vernon, Paper Direct, Sa-So

• URBAN OUTFITTERS includes Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie, Free People, Terrain

• W.W. GRAINGER includes AW Direct, Ben Meadows, Gempler's, Highsmith, Lab Safety Supply, Professional Equipment, Rand Materials Handling