Home Depot Acquires Hughes Supply
In its largest purchase since it was founded in 1978, Atlanta-based Home Depot acquired Hughes Supply, a $4.42 billion distributor of construction materials and products, for $3.47 billion.
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With Venture Capital, Guild.com Gears Up for Growth
On the heels of a profitable 2005, Madison, WI-based Guild.com has 7 million reasons to start off the new year with a bang. Two venture capital firms, New York-based Dolphin Equity Partners and San Francisco-based Equity Partners, have partnered to provide the purveyor of artworks and artisan decor and jewelry with $7 million in funding.
Celebrate Express Celebrates 39% Jump in 2Q Sales
Judging from its most recent quarterly results, Celebrate Express has a reason to rejoice. For its second quarter of fiscal 2006, ended Nov. 30, the Kirkland, WA-based merchant of party supplies, children
The True Cost of Fragmentation
In the world of distribution,
Ask the DC Doctor
Welcome to a new recurring feature, in which Bill Kuipers, president of Haskell, NJ-based operational consultancy Spaide Kuipers, diagnoses your warehouse and fulfillment ills and prescribes a solution.
Survey: Online Service on the Wane
Are online merchants starting to take Web buyers for granted? That
Consumers Will Give Info for Timely, Relevant E-mail: Study
Two-thirds of consumers are unwilling to give personal information beyond a name and an e-mail address to marketers unless giving the information improves the quality of the e-mails they receive, according to a recently published study.
SideStep Goes Hunting Up the Amazon
SideStep, one of the best-known travel metasearch engines, needed wider distribution and better exposure on the Web. Amazon.com wanted to offer more robust travel services than simply selling discount tickets.
Web Testing and the Art of the Carrot
In 2004, John Howard had a problem. He had earned his nickname