IN PRAISE OF PCI
When the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards were introduced four years ago, they were received with about as much enthusiasm as a root canal.
Channel Integration
J.C. Penney pairs up with Polo
A year after announcing it would partner with Polo Ralph Lauren in a private label deal, J.C. Penney unveiled the lifestyle brand, American Living. The
Lightman out of Sharper Image
Just 10 months after taking on the job of rescuing the high-tech gadgets and gifts merchant, Steven Lightman was replaced Feb. 14 as Sharper Image Corp.’s
Window treatment
If only merchants put as much thought into their store windows as they do into their Websites. Most toss in a few of their latest products and hope for
Oh, behave!
In the not-so-recent past, marketers treated e-mail as an electronic version of mass media, blasting the same message to their entire audience. If marketers
More layoffs, likely sale for Lillian
Things have gone from bad to worse for Lillian Vernon. Two months after it cut 25% of its staff, the struggling gifts and housewares cataloger on Feb.
Redcats USA prefers plus sizes
According to parent company PPR’s fourth-quarter and full-year sales results, the conglomerate’s Redcats Group has decided to discontinue the activities
ATD-American acquires Adirondack Direct
ATD-American, a direct merchant of business and institutional furniture and equipment, announced Jan. 31 that it has acquired a similar business-to-business
A catalog redo for peanuts
Peanuts are good, and according to the Peanut Institute, good for you. Bertie County Peanuts has been growing and selling peanuts since 1915, so the company
A slow finish in 2007
The fourth quarter wasn’t great for retail sales, and it wasn’t robust for industry mergers and acquisitions either. The volume of deals in the fourth