Cash Crunch for Blue Sky Brands
Blue Sky Brands, the parent company of catalogers Paragon Gifts, Bits and Pieces, Bits and Pieces U.K., National Wildlife Direct, and Wintherthur, is facing such severe cash-flow problems that it hasn
Red Flag for Red Envelope?
Gifts cataloger Red Envelope is falling further into the red.
More Layoffs, Likely Sale for Lillian Vernon
Things have gone from bad to worse for Lillian Vernon.
Flax Bids Farewell to Direct Business
Thanks in large part to last year
Catalogers React to Rate Hike News
Catalog mailers tend to view any postal rate hike with fear and loathing.
Lifetime Brands consolidates operations with new DC
Lifetime Brands, a marketer/distributor of consumer home products, is taking over its own fulfillment with the opening of a new distribution center. The
Five truths for e-commerce
Online retail has shown extraordinary growth since 2002, according to Sucharita Mulpuru, a retail analyst with Forrester Research. And despite media naysayers,
Fairytale Brownies on seasonal staffing
Multichannel merchants typically have to have their holiday season staff in place before the fall. How do they do it? We asked Phoenix-based Fairytale
Not the finest quarter
Reflecting the weak national economy, the third quarter wasn’t so kind to the publicly traded consumer merchants tracked by Multichannel Merchant. Despite
Harry & David buys Wolferman’s catalog
Harry & David Holdings got a little fatter just after the holidays: The fruit gifts mailer acquired breakfast foods cataloger Wolferman’s from Williams