Financial Reports: United Stationers, Blair Corp.
Office supplier United Stationers ended fiscal 2006 with solid sales and income gains. Apparel and home goods Blair Corp., on the other hand, suffered some steep declines
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Prerequisites for Leveraging Transactional E-mail
While transactional e-mail offers the highest open and clickthrough rates of any type of e-mail, Harte-Hanks in 2005 said that most companies continue to send plain-text e-mail with no branding or dynamic cross-sell offers.
Financial Reports: Harry and David, School Specialty, Blue Nile
Cataloger/retailer Harry and David Holdings posts strong quarterly growth, while online jeweler Blue Nile celebrates a successful year. Multititle mailer School Specialty, meanwhile, cuts its quarterly loss
Home Depot Mulls Alternatives for HD Supply
Atlanta-based Home Depot is evaluating strategic alternatives for its HD Supply business, including a possible sale, spin-off, or initial public offering.
Sharper Image Creates Licensing Division
Sharper Image has created a division that will license The Sharper Image brand to manufacturers and retailers across a broad range of product categories,
Eddie Bauer Acquisition Voted Down
Cataloger/retailer Eddie Bauer isn
January Sales Roundup
January brought a mixed bag of financial results for the publicly traded companies tracked by MULTICHANNEL MERCHANT.
Venus Swimwear to Expand Retail Efforts
Golden Gate Capital is wasting little time in its plans to expand recently acquired cataloger Venus Swimwear.
The State of Online Security: Not So Good
Half of all Websites are vulnerable to database attacks, according to security data collected from 27,000 ScanAlert customers for a recently published report. Forty-five percent of Websites had a serious database vulnerability
Financial Reports: IAC, Overstock.com
Sales growth isn’t enough to stave of a profit plunge at IAC/InterActiveCorp, while Overstock.com doesn’t even have sales growth to console it for its stepper losses