Almost in spite of themselves, manufacturers in many industries will be increasing capital expenditures for plant equipment over the next few years, according to a recent study by Dedham, MA-based ARC Advisory Group. The process automation market, according to the study,
Dallas-based cataloger/retailer Neiman Marcus Group has hired investment banker Goldman Sachs & Co. to help it explore “strategic alternatives” to enhance shareholder value, including a sale.
As Edgewater, NJ-based multititle mailer Hanover Direct tries to clean up its mess of late financial filings and earnings restatement, its chief financial officer, Charles Blue, resigned on March 14.
Is the marriage of Sears and Lands
Five months after the departure of chairman/CEO Bruce Nelson, Office Depot has appointed a new chairman/CEO: Steve Odland, who comes to the Delray Beach, FL-based multichannel merchant from AutoZone
Looking to bolster its presence in the food, wine, and gift baskets category, Garden City, NY-based 1-800-Flowers.com purchased Westerville, OH-based Cheryl & Co., a manufacturer/marketer of baked goods
Philadelphia-based Anthropologie is hoping that the 56-page accessories-only catalog it mailed last month will “put ourselves on the map in terms of accessories,” says managing director Michael Robinson.
Despite year-over-year sales gains, both OfficeMax Contract and Excelligence Learning suffered bottom-line erosion.
Last week Brent Bissell, president of Minneapolis-based consultancy Direct Target One, kicked off a two-part series on the importance of data best practices. Here he concludes his series.
During the course of the interviews I conducted to collect the information for this article, a number of people echoed the same theme: There has been a mass exodus of workers who really know lists and data hygiene protocols, not to mention the upper-level analytic techniques and the skills to know what to use under which conditions. When it comes to basic direct marketing data knowledge, as one interviewee put it,
Last week American List Counsel and Millard Group created an Internet-based, interactive data exchange system, DMexchange, to allow participants to exchange list order and shipping information via a secure Website.