Airgas to Acquire Oilind Safety
Airgas, a marketer of specialty gases, welding and safety equipment has agreed to acquire the assets and operations of Energy Safety Services, doing business as Oilind Safety.
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Catalog Choice: We Aren’t Out to Kill Direct Mail
The last thing Catalog Choice
Sales Jump for J. Crew
Apparel cataloger/retailer J. Crew had plenty of good news to report from its first quarter ended May 3. The New York-based company
Red Envelope finds a buyer maybe
It looks like gifts cataloger Red Envelope, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on April 17, will be sold to Creative Catalogs Corp. The
Oriental Trading’s new chief
What does a guy whose strengths are high-tech product lines, Website savvy and international marketing know about running a low-end gifts and novelties
Movers & shakers
Day-Timer has named Martha A. Curren vice president/general manager for the U.S., Canadian and International marketplace. Curren had most recently been
Godiva goes mobile
Godiva Chocolatier has a new flavor: BlackBerry. The multichannel food and gift merchant has added a mobile channel to enable BlackBerry smartphone users
MacKenzie-Childs acquired
Private equity firm Twin Lakes Capital acquired ceramics manufacturer/marketer MacKenzie-Childs on May 7. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. MacKenzie-Childs,
1-800-Flowers.com buys DesignPac Gifts
Multititle mailer 1-800-Flowers.com announced on May 1 it has acquired DesignPac Gifts for $36 million. DesignPac Gifts, which did $50 million in sales
Bloomingdale’s to bag By Mail books
Say goodbye to the Bloomingdale’s By Mail catalog. The apparel cataloger/retailer merchant plans to phase out the title by early 2009. It will instead