Social media has been a charm for some merchants and a flop for others. But even the successful social sellers have made a faux pas or two along the way. And for many, making mistakes while trying to build their “social nation,” as social software provider Mzinga’s chairman/CEO Barry Libert calls it, has meant damaged reputations for their brands.
Although TPG Group and Leonard Green & Partners have agreed to acquire J. Crew Group for nearly $3 billion, some believe the apparel cataloger/merchant may get a better offer.
Apparel cataloger/merchant J. Crew Group announced today that it will be acquired by funds affiliated with TPG Capital and Leonard Green & Partners for $43.50 per share in cash, or a total of nearly $3 billion. Shortly after the company announced the deal, several law firms issued statements indicating they are investigating the deal on behalf of J. Crew’s shareholders.
More merchants are getting their feet wet with mcommerce, but how well are they doing with the channel? The E-tailing Group’s First Annual Mobile Commerce Mystery Shopping Study, conducted in the third quarter, shows that merchants are doing some things right with mobile
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Ecommerce sales in Europe are projected to reach $257 billion in 2010. This is 35% of the world total, and marginally ahead of the $250 billion forecast for the U.S. But as many as one quarter of U.S.-based merchants still won
At the Mobile Shopping Summit in New York in October, John Tighe, director of ecommerce at Journeys parent company Genesco Retail, talked about the integration of m-commerce across all channels. Here are some of the lessons Tighe said he’s learned along the way.
Many business-to-business merchants design their catalogs using a
Neiman Marcus Last Month Revealed its Christmas Book, signifying a return to extravagance (not that extravagance ever really went away for the high-end
For nearly a quarter century Gardens Alive! flew largely under the radar as a multititle mailer of specialty horticultural catalogs. That changed in 2008,