Some Slight Gains
THE SECOND QUARTER COULD HAVE BEEN WORSE but it still wasn’t pretty for most of the publicly traded consumer merchants tracked by Multichannel Merchant.
Marketing
Direct Sales Down 27% for Golfsmith
Third-quarter sales for golf equipment cataloger/retailer Golfsmith decreased 11%, to $90.6 million, down from $101.7 million for the same period last year.
Sales Down All Around For Frederick’s
Fourth-quarter sales for women
Sales Fall 20% for 1-800-Flowers.com
First-quarter sales for multititle mailer 1-800-Flowers.com dropped 20%, to $108.3 million, compared to $135.4 million for the same period last year.
Pottery Barn Kids Snips Threads Spin-off
The Pottery Barn Kids retail concept called Threads has closed after just 15 months. The two baby clothing and gifts stores, located in New York and Bellevue, WA, had opened in late 2007.
More Mill Downtime for NewPage
NewPage Corp., the top producer of coated freesheet paper in North America, announced Oct. 13 it plans to take about 160,000 tons of market-related downtime in the fourth quarter of 2009.
Tall Girls Assets Acquired by U.K. Rival
Long Tall Sally, a U.K-based multichannel merchant of apparel for tall women, has acquired select assets of troubled retailer Tall Girls, including its U.S. Website and 10 Tall Girls stores in Canada.
How to Build Your Online Community
If you have a Twitter feed and a Facebook page, it doesn’t mean you’ve built an online community, said the social media experts who spoke Oct. 7 at a Hudson Valley Direct Marketing Association luncheon at Fairview Country Club.
Social Media is Swell, But Don’t Forget the Basics
People want to know how to make social media work for their business, how to use it to generate leads and obtain more sales. And social media can help you do this, allowing the proper research and strategies are in place. But it can
Building a file from retail names
Imagine a customer walking into your store to buy a gift for a friend. You invest time serving the customer, build a one-to-one relationship, and make