Private equity firm Brentwood Associates has acquired a majority stake in women’s apparel and accessories, jewelry, and home furnishings seller Sundance Catalog from ACI Capital, Webster Capital and Sundance catalog founder Robert Redford, who will retain minority stakes in the 23-year-old company.
In their 27th year, the MCM Awards are a celebration of cross-channel excellence for both business-to-business and business-to-consumer merchandise marketers. Why should you enter the MCM Awards? An MCM Award is the industry’s top honor for cross-channel marketers, but the benefits of winning go beyond that.
The MCM Awards 2012 will be broken down into 6 new categories, allowing for Gold, Silver and Bronze winners.
Entering the 2012 MCM Awards? Not sure what you need to submit to the Multichannel Merchant staff? Your entry should be a case study (PDF preferred) that documents what steps you took to make your campaign cross-channel. It does not need to include revenues generated as a result of the campaign, but should let the MCM Awards judges know what the goal of the campaign was, and how multiple channels were used in conjunction to reach that goal.Here’s a sample entry created by the Multichannel Merchant staff that can help you understand what we’re looking for. Please feel free to download it or print it out as a visual guide.
The National Retail Federation said today that it is disappointed that the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act. Here’s what NRF CEO Matthew Shay – and Retail Industry Leaders Association president Sandy Kennedy – had to say about the decision, and how it will affect its constituents.
Sealed Air will be the exclusive licensee of Ecovative Design
One month after launching two digital catalogs, intimate apparel merchant Bare Necessities has launched a new digital catalog for Chantelle, a French lingerie brand.
Social media goliath Facebook announced that it has acquired Face.com, a face recognition program. The deal brings the technology vendor in-house to Facebook. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.