Home Depot’s Mobile Grows; CB2 Catalog Shrinks
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3Q Sales Barely Up at 1-800-Flowers.com
Third-quarter sales for multititle mailer 1-800-Flowers.com were nearly flat, or up less than 1%, to $155.5 million, from $154.5 million last year.
Management Shuffling at Neiman Marcus
Burton M. Tansky will retire as president/CEO of luxury retailer The Neiman Marcus Group effective Oct. 6, and will be succeeded by Neiman Marcus Stores division president/CEO Karen W. Katz. Tansky, who has been president/CEO since 2001, joined the …
Two More Acquisitions for Sport Supply Group
Sport Supply Group has picked up two more. The sports equipment merchant acquired substantially all of the assets of Coaches Sports Corner, a regional team sports distributor based in Sandusky, OH, and certain assets of Greg Larson Sports, a national cataloger and regional team sports distributor based in Brainerd, MN.
USPS: Catalog Visibility at All-Time High
Catalog mail is most definitely on the radar of the U.S. Postal Service, according to Tom Foti, the agency
ACMA to Catalogers: We Need More of You
The good news is that the American Catalog Mailers Association has picked up 15 new members since January, bringing its membership to more than 100 companies. The bad news is that
Time to Jump Into the M-commerce Ring
While there are some benefits to learning from mobile commerce trendsetters, businesses serious about embracing new technology and attracting next generation consumers need to act now to diversify their multichannel sales strategies by testing the mobile commerce waters.
A worthwhile infection
For at least five years maybe 10 this cry has resounded through the venerable ivy-covered walls of the catalog universe: Printed catalogs are obsolete!
Single vs. multisource parcel carrier services
There is an age-old procurement debate over the merits of sourcing with a single supplier vs. multiple suppliers. In the world of parcel carrier services,
BACHRACH ASSETS SOLD
B&B BACHRACH HAS ACQUIRED THE ASSETS OF BACHRACH ACQUISITION, which owns the men’s apparel cataloger/retailer Bachrach, for $5.25 million. The bankrupt