Bean Annual Sales Up Nearly 5%
For fiscal 2006, sales at Freeport, ME-based L.L. Bean were $1.54 billion, up 4.6%
MCM staff
February Sales Roundup
For the most part, February warmed up for the publicly traded companies
tracked by MULTICHANNEL MERCHANT. But, some companies, like Sharper Image, suffered a chill.
Financial Reports: Coldwater Creek, Urban Outfitters, Neiman Marcus, and More
Fourth-quarter direct sales at Sandpoint, ID-based women
Financial Reports: Talbots, Chico’s
For multibrand apparel cataloger/retailers Talbots and Chico’s, year-over-year sales increases weren’t enough to prevent a slide in income
Show Me The Data: Put A Freshness Date On Your File
Data never dies; customer records and angry blogs alike will exist on some medium somewhere for a long time. But customer data does age beyond usefulness very quickly. I was involved in an attempt to recover a form of intellectual property recently, a defunct business
New Products and Partnerships
Integrated Direct Marketing (IDM), a Reston, VA-based data analytic provider, and Chicago-based direct marketing consultancy Wheaton Group announced a partnership to offer data mining services to IDM clients.
Postal Rate Crisis: What You Need to Do
Industry associations are urging their members to fax the U.S. Postal Service
USPS Rate Case: Time for Last-Ditch Appeals
As you no doubt know from MULTICHANNEL MERCHANT’s ongoing coverage and Webinars, the pending postal rate case is expected to be approved
Financial Reports: Staples, Victoria’s Secret, Bluefly
Office supplies cataloger/retailer Staples had double-digit sales and income gains in 2006. For Victoria’s Secret parent company Limited Brands and online merchant Bluefly, however, revenue increases failed to boost the bottom line
Backword
In-flight institution gets mauled Pretty much everyone has made fun of SkyMall at some point. After all, who hasn’t been stuck on an airplane with nothing