Talbots catalog sales dip 1% for the year
A tough retail environment and sluggish catalog sales led to an 8% drop in fourth-quarter sales for The Talbots (NYSE: TLB). But tighter inventory controls
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Intimate Brands recommends Limited’s buyback
Intimate Brands, parent company of cataloger/retailers Victoria’s Secret and Bath & Body Works, has recommended that shareholders accept The Limited’s
Might Federated hook up with May?
In what would result in a retail megamerger, The Wall Street Journal on March 11 reported that Federated Department Stores (NYSE:FD) and May Department
Double-digit top-line, bottom-line growth for Williams-Sonoma
Consumer nesting fueled quarterly and annual increases at home d
School Specialty CEO dead
Business-to-business school supplies cataloger School Specialty reported on March 8 that its chairman/CEO, Dan Spalding, had died unexpectedly. The Greenville,
Bush eyes former PMG for USPS board
President Bush intends to nominate former Postmaster General Albert Casey as a member of the U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors, the Alliance of Nonprofit
Federated extends Fingerhut sale deadline–or does it?
Federated Department Stores on March 7 said it gave Business Development Group Acquisitions (BDGA) at least another week to pull together financing to
February sales roundup
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Limited amends Intimate Brands offer
The Limited revised its offer to acquire the 16% of Intimate Brands that it doesn