Ebbets Field back home
Three years after selling cataloger Ebbets Field Flannels to Seattle-based sporting goods manufacturer Stall & Dean, the two cofounders have reacquired
Neiman Marcus: $5.1 billion baby
Dallas-based cataloger/retailer The Neiman Marcus Group on May 2 agreed to be acquired by Texas Pacific Group and Warburg Pincus for $100 a share in cash,
Boston Proper clicks with new site
Considering that the initial Website of Boca Raton, FL-based Boston Proper was little more than an online order form, the $60 million-plus women’s apparel
Coldwater’s e-deliverability boost
Women’s apparel merchant Coldwater Creek sends the 2.5 million customers on its e-mail file roughly two e-mails a month. But a year ago nearly 30% of
Blair on Acquisition Offer: “We’re Reviewing”
Loeb Partners Corp., a New York-based company with multiple investment funds, has offered to buy Warren, PA-based Blair Corp. for $36 a share
J. Crew Mum on Potential IPO
Though “The Wall Street Journal” reported this week that New York-based cataloger/retailer J. Crew might file for an initial public offering (IPO) later this year, the company is staying silent.
Redcats USA Closing MA Call Center
Multititle cataloger Redcats USA is consolidating its call center operations and will close its West Bridgewater, MA, center at the end of June.
Neiman Marcus Agrees to Sale; Two Investment Firms to Pay $5.1 Billion
Dallas-based cataloger/retailer The Neiman Marcus Group (NYSE: NMG.A) on May 2 agreed to be acquired by Texas Pacific Group and Warburg Pincus for $100 per share in cash, or $5.1 billion. Texas Pacific and Warburg Pincus will own an equal stake in the company upon the transaction
Missing catalogs has coffee mailer steaming
A Stoughton, WI-based coffee mailer is wondering about the whereabouts of some 4,500 catalogs. Andrew Billman, cofounder of coffee gifts merchant The
JH Partners takes stake in AmeriMark
JH Partners is at it again: On March 18 the San Francisco-based private equity firm bought 75% of AmeriMark Direct, a multititle mailer of women’s apparel,