Lillian Vernon Closing In On a Sale

| Jim Tierney

Less than one month after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, gifts and housewares cataloger Lillian Vernon has reached a tentative agreement to sell the 57-year-old company, according to documents filed last week in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Wilmington, DE.

February Sales Roundup

| MCM staff

February was for the most part a decent month for the publicly traded companies tracked by MULTICHANNEL MERCHANT.

Yankee Candle Learns From Matchback Analysis

| Tim Parry

The first question Yankee Candle asks when it’s looking at its buyer file is how much it can spend to market to a customer and still break even.

That’s why matchbacks are so important to the firm. If it understands a consumer