The combined average gross deliverability rate for permission-based e-mails increased from 87% in the third quarter of last year to 89% in the fourth quarter, according to a recent study by Lyris Technologies.
It might be a different month, but the same fiscal woes continued to shadow Sharper Image Corp. But March was a productive month for most of the other publicly traded cataloger/retailers tracked by MULTICHANNEL MERCHANT.
You could call this a sweet deal: 1-800-Flowers.com has signed a definitive agreement to buy Fannie May Confections Brands from Alpine Confections for approximately $85 million in cash.
St. Louis-based Bakers Footwear Group is following in the footsteps of numerous other retailers by launching a print catalog. The 32-page book mailed last month
Disc Makers, a Pennsauken, NJ-based catalog and Web merchant of CD and DVD replication products and services, has been acquired by Corinthian Capital Group, a New York-based leverage buyout firm.
According to a recent study by the Warehousing and Education Research Council (WERC), nearly half of responding companies (44%) are not considering RFID technology at present.
Distribution center managers are always looking for new ways to cut costs and improve performance. But simple solutions are not always obvious, so we’ve listed a few tricks of the trade. Deploying just one of the changes listed below, you could save thousands of dollars a year.
The benefits of a booming economy are obvious to top line sales but a robust economy causes problems with labor availability in many markets.
New York–During the past year the number of Hispanics online has jumped by 1 million people, to 15 million, according to Captura Group principal Lee Vann–which is all the more reason for multichannel merchants to focus on the demographic.