3Q Sales Barely Up at 1-800-Flowers.com
Third-quarter sales for multititle mailer 1-800-Flowers.com were nearly flat, or up less than 1%, to $155.5 million, from $154.5 million last year.
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Management Shuffling at Neiman Marcus
Burton M. Tansky will retire as president/CEO of luxury retailer The Neiman Marcus Group effective Oct. 6, and will be succeeded by Neiman Marcus Stores division president/CEO Karen W. Katz. Tansky, who has been president/CEO since 2001, joined the …
Two More Acquisitions for Sport Supply Group
Sport Supply Group has picked up two more. The sports equipment merchant acquired substantially all of the assets of Coaches Sports Corner, a regional team sports distributor based in Sandusky, OH, and certain assets of Greg Larson Sports, a national cataloger and regional team sports distributor based in Brainerd, MN.
USPS: Catalog Visibility at All-Time High
Catalog mail is most definitely on the radar of the U.S. Postal Service, according to Tom Foti, the agency
ACMA to Catalogers: We Need More of You
The good news is that the American Catalog Mailers Association has picked up 15 new members since January, bringing its membership to more than 100 companies. The bad news is that
Multichannel Merchant Survey Shows Merchants Not So Social
Are multichannel marketers making the most of social media? They
Experts Weigh In on Target’s Smith & Hawken Web Strategy
Is Target turning the Smith & Hawken Website into a social media platform for gardeners? That’s the message
Market Snapshot: Home Universe gets Downsized
The home products catalog market lost about 300,000 active names in the fourth quarter of 2009, according to New York-based list brokerage firm ParadysMatera.
Three Steps to Add Social Technologies to Your Site
Nearly 20% of social consumers are now using social networks as their core navigation tool. Rather than using search engines or content hubs such as Microsoft or Yahoo, these consumers are looking for content within social networks and clicking from there. Here’s what that trend means for e-commerce.
Time to Jump Into the M-commerce Ring
While there are some benefits to learning from mobile commerce trendsetters, businesses serious about embracing new technology and attracting next generation consumers need to act now to diversify their multichannel sales strategies by testing the mobile commerce waters.