American Eagle Outfitters on Cutting Labor Expenses

| Jeff Morris

American Eagle Outfitters operates several distribution centers in North America, including a facility in Warrendale, PA, and a DC in Mississauga, Ontario, to service its Canadian stores. But the multichannel apparel merchant is most excited about its newest DC in Ottawa, KS, which is helping it reduce labor costs.

2008 MCM Awards finalists

| MCM staff

The judging panel has narrowed the field of nearly 200 entries in the Multichannel Merchant Awards to 110 total finalists. This year’s judges selected

Good-bye, BlueSky

| MCM staff

BlueSky Brands is history. The North Kingstown, RI-based parent company of the Paragon Gifts, Bits and Pieces, Bits and Pieces U.K., National Wildlife Direct, and Winterthur catalogs, which also owns McLean, VA-based third-party fulfillment provider AB&C Group, shut down on March 14.

Brand Transformation

| Andrea Syverson

In some ways, brands are just like people. They get stuck. They have habits that are hard to break. They don’t always see their blind spots, and they

A mixed quarter for b-to-b

| Jim Tierney

Among the publicly traded business-to-business merchants tracked by Multichannel Merchant, 2007 ended with some winners and some losers. Year-over-year

BlueSky’s bad deal

| MCM staff

The news that multititle catalog mailer/fulfillment house BlueSky Brands had abruptly shut down last month no doubt came as a shock to many people. Even

Digging in to Michigan Bulb

| MCM staff

Ah springtime, when a young man’s thoughts turn to gardening or something like that. And when you think gardening, venerable seed and plant catalogers