Report: Multichannel Retailers Saw Double-Digit Growth in 2005
Marketing solutions provider Abacus’s annual multichannel trend report shows a 14% rise in sales and transactions in 2005.
MCM staff
Report: Merchants Shifting Holiday Initiatives to E-Mail and SEM
Results of the Online Retail Holiday Readiness Report indicate a shift from price-based promotions to relationship marketing initiatives such as e-mail marketing and search engine marketing, which allow retailers to understand visitor intent and leverage behavior-based insights to target customers with relevant messages that strengthen relationships.
2Q Direct Sales Up 11% at Urban Outfitters
Philadelphia-based apparel and home decor merchant Urban Outfitters (Nasdaq: URBN), which mails the Anthropologie and Urban Outfitters titles, reported an 11% increase in its direct-to-consumer business, which includes the Anthropologie, Free People, and Urban Outfitters catalogs.
The DCs of Madison County
The best-selling novel The Bridges of Madison County may have put Madison County, Iowa, on the map, but Madison County, Illinois, is now gaining attention for being a hotbed for distribution centers.
The Promise of Service-Oriented Architecture
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is generating a lot of buzz these days. In fact, according to a new AberdeenGroup benchmark report,
Aramark Sold to Investor Group
Philadelphia-based food service and facilities management company Aramark Corp. has agreed to a $6.3 billion buyout offer.
Clean Up Your B-to-B Sales and Marketing Database
It can be a big waste of money and time to market to someone who isn’t there to receive your message. It can also be costly to keep mailing or calling contacts who are not interested in what you have to offer. So it’s important to keep your database clean. Here’s a few suggestions on how to do it.
Management Shakeup at J&L Industrial Supply
Just two months after buying J&L Industrial Supply, Melville, NY-based maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO) supplier MSC Industrial Direct Co. announced a restructuring of the management team.
July Sales Roundup
It may have been a hot outside, but July proved rather chilly, fiscally speaking, for Sharper Image Corp., as its sales continued to slide. For the other publicly traded companies tracked by MULTICHANNEL MERCHANT, however, July was much kinder.
Sales Down but Income Up at OfficeMax
Itasca, IL-based cataloger/retailer OfficeMax had a mixed bag of financial news for the second quarter ended July 1.