Get Into Bed and Breakfast With Stash Tea
Maybe There’s No Such Thing as a free lunch, but you can get a free breakfast and a bed thanks to The Stash Tea Co. The Portland, OR-based specialty teas
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Slimmer Pickings
The tall, skinny catalogs affectionately known as slim-jims are soon to be scarce, once the latest U.S. Postal Service modifications kick in on Sept.
Good deals, bad deals
A Flurry of Multichannel M&A activity took place during the past few weeks. Some of these transactions were happy ones, relatively speaking, in that they
Express Paint is Dialed in to Service
A Multichannel Merchant Staffer Needed to fix a scratch on her car, and found the Express Paint Website via Google. After selecting all the paint, primer
J. Jill’s out, Sears is in
I Just Read Your July Editor’s Note (Paying the price for J. Jill), and I couldn’t agree more. I was so disappointed with J. Jill’s decline in quality,
Inside the Spiegel Sale
For the Second Time in Less than a Year, Spiegel Brands has a New Owner. Signature Styles, a newly formed division of private equity firm Patriarch Partners,
Sensory overload
Banner Engineering Corp. is a global leader in process and industrial automation, thanks to its serious selection of sensors. The Minneapolis-based manufacturer/merchant
Movers and Shakers
Foot Locker has named Ken C. Hicks president/CEO. Hicks, who had been president/chief merchandising officer of J.C. Penney Co., succeeds Foot Locker CEO
Sport Supply Group Acquires Har-Bell Assets
Sport Supply Group has snapped up another one. Exactly a month after buying certain assets from Gus Doerner Sports, the sports equipment merchant marketer said Thursday it bought some team sports assets from Har-Bell Athletic Goods.