NRF Urging House Support on Store Appreciation Bill
Legislation introduced last week would expand and make permanent a 2004 tax provision that temporarily shortens the depreciation period for retail remodeling and other improvements made to stores.
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Movers & shakers
Peter Sachse, chairman/CEO of Macys.com, has taken on the additional role of chief marketing officer and president of Macy’s corporate marketing. Sachse,
Safe harbor
Have you ever hired an illegal alien? Chances are you wouldn’t know it if you did. There are 12 million undocumented immigrants in this country, and many
New lists
The names of almost 13 million epicureans, 65% of which are men, have been assembled for this list. Data is sourced from publishers, online retailer, catalogers, Websites and surveys.
Lab Safety Supply buys McFeely’s
Business-to-business multititle mailer Lab Safety Supply keeps adding to its stable. The merchant in June announced it had acquired the assets of McFeely’s Square Drive Screws, a woodworking tools and supplies merchant that logged more than $9 million in sales last year. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Learning through sharing
Rich Skinner is the warehouse manager for Nasco’s distribution center in Fort Atkinson, WI. Skinner works daily on seeing that Nasco’s supervisors and
Deciphering Web Data
You are sitting on a pile of incredibly useful data. You just don’t know it yet. But if you’re tracking results on your paid search campaign, online display
A lesson in catalog anatomy
When you sell charts, posters, and models of various parts of the human anatomy, it’s not always easy to sex up your catalog design. Anatomical Chart
SPOTLIGHT ON NCOF
This month, George Mollo, president of Nanuet, NY-based consultancy GJM Associates talks about what you must know about your inbound freight costs.
Hats off to 2007 MCM award winners
After months of suspense, the winners of the annual Multichannel Merchant Awards were announced at the Annual Conference for Catalog & Multichannel Merchants (ACCM) in Boston at a special luncheon ceremony on May 22. Although you’ll have to wait until the September issue of Multichannel Merchant to read profiles of the winners, for now here’s the complete list of the 2007 award recipients.