R.R. Donnelley Acquires Equity Stake in CoffeeTable

| Jim Tierney

CoffeeTable offers a discovery-based tablet shopping experience for consumers to browse and shop across multiple retailers and provides a comprehensive set of data analytics to help drive retailers’ multichannel marketing strategies.

HSN Acquires Chasing Fireflies

| Tim Parry

Crosschannel retailer HSN has acquired upscale children’s apparel seller Chasing Fireflies, and will make it a part of the Cornerstone Brands operating segment. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but HSN has said Chasing Fireflies will continue to operate as an independent brand.

How to Determine a DRTV Strategy

| Shari Altman

DRTV can be enticing to direct response marketers because of its presence in all of our lives and to be blunt. When it works well, it can be incredibly profitable because of its broad reach. Unfortunately, when it doesn

Executive Roundtable: Presidents and CEOs Talk Critical Topics

| Jim Tierney

We convened a diverse group of 10 presidents and CEOs for a roundtable discussion at the NEMOA Conference, held in Boston on March 14. The list of topics included the economy, the potential impact of a presidential election year, viral videos, the role of the catalog, Amazon, mobile and tablet strategies, corrugated packaging, the need for speed, discounting, and building online communities. Here’s which executives attended, and what they had to tell us.

Survey: Socially-conscious Consumers Consult Social Media

| Erin Lynch

Merchants and retailers should look no further than to a recent Nielsen survey of 28,000 internet users when trying to figure out how they should spread the word about their brand. According to the Global Corporate Citizenship Survey, 63% of the global, socially conscious respondents are under the age of 40 and consult with the social media of their choice when deciding on what items to purchase.