Airgas Acquires Tri-Tech

| MCM staff

Airgas announced Nov. 16 it acquired the assets and operations of Tampa, FL-based Tri-Tech, a distributor of industrial, medical, and specialty gases and related supplies.

In Social Media, Point-of-View Equals ROI

| Drew Neisser

Marketers rushed into social media in 2009 like gunmen into banks, looking for fast cash and a quick way out. Typically, this resulted in a bad experience for all parties and a premature determination that this

Signs of Life

| Jim Tierney

No one is expecting a blockbuster holiday, and that’s good we’re not likely to get one. But the sentiment for many by the end of the summer was that we

Some Slight Gains

| Jim Tierney

THE SECOND QUARTER COULD HAVE BEEN WORSE but it still wasn’t pretty for most of the publicly traded consumer merchants tracked by Multichannel Merchant.

The power of interruption

| MCM staff

CATALOGERS HAVE HAD GOOD REASONS lately to rein in their prospecting and cut back on mailings. You have to hold the line on costs when sales aren’t coming