Sport Supply Group Acquires Har-Bell Assets

| MCM staff

Sport Supply Group has snapped up another one. Exactly a month after buying certain assets from Gus Doerner Sports, the sports equipment merchant marketer said Thursday it bought some team sports assets from Har-Bell Athletic Goods.

Takeaways and Tips to Improve SEO

| Tim Parry

What you do with your SEO may not be visible to the naked eye, but it’s picked up by the search engines. And the better you do SEO, the greater the chance a consumer will find your e-commerce site via Google, Yahoo, MSN and the rest of the search engines. And increased traffic equals more revenue.

Using BI to Sharpen Your Competitive Edge

| Jeff Buck

True multichannel success can only be achieved when the retailer has visibility into all channels separately and as a single, cohesive business. Retail-focused business intelligence (BI) and analytics can help.

MCM 100 2009: Here They Are

| Melissa Dowling

The Big Did Get Bigger in 2008, but solid growth or any growth was hardly a sure thing. Many companies on the Multichannel Merchant 100 list this year

Who owns what

| MCM staff

Many of the MCM 100 are Multititle Mailers. Here’s a Guide to Who Owns What: 1-800-FLOWERS.COM includes 1-800-Flowers.com, Ambrosia, Cheryl & Co., Fannie

The ways and means of widgets

| Dayna Bateman

What makes a good widget? Like the creations from the 1980s TV series hero MacGyver, the best widgets are compelling inventions strung together ingeniously

Spring Hill Applies SPF

| MCM staff

A Multichannel Merchant Staffer Recently Ordered Some Plants from Spring Hill Nursery. When the order arrived, her husband unpacked the plants and found

Paying the price for J. Jill

| MCM staff

When Talbots Bought J. Jill Three Years Ago, it was no secret that industry watchers felt the women’s apparel merchant had way overpaid. Financial experts