Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Acquires Timothy’s Coffees of the World
Green Mountain paid $157 million in cash for the coffee brand and wholesale operations of, which had been an affiliate of private equity firm Sun Capital Partners.
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J.C. Penney’s Net Income Down 78%
J.C. Penney Co. saw total third-quarter sales drop 3.2%, to $4.17 billion, compared to $4.31 billion for the same period in 2008.
Airgas Acquires Tri-Tech
Airgas announced Nov. 16 it acquired the assets and operations of Tampa, FL-based Tri-Tech, a distributor of industrial, medical, and specialty gases and related supplies.
Musician’s Friend Cutting 75 Jobs
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Make a Statement with Shipping
Marketplaces such as Ebay or Amazon.com offer a solution to the most fundamental problem of new online businesses
Signs of Life
No one is expecting a blockbuster holiday, and that’s good we’re not likely to get one. But the sentiment for many by the end of the summer was that we
Why you should measure incremental customer performance
Testing is at the heart of direct marketing multichannel merchants test e-mail subject lines, catalog cover versions, Website landing pages and search
The power of interruption
CATALOGERS HAVE HAD GOOD REASONS lately to rein in their prospecting and cut back on mailings. You have to hold the line on costs when sales aren’t coming
Creative on a shoestring budget
Your catalog creative budget has been cut, but your revenue expectations have not. Can you manage these opposing directives? Yes, if you look carefully
Brand voila! or brand pandemonium?
When you look across your marketing channels, do you smile as you see a version of your brand’s very best a brand voila? Or does it look more like brand