As LTL Rates Go Up, It’s Time to Revisit Your Contracts
Many less-than-truckload (LTL) shippers do not fully understand how much they are overspending. With the right tools and guidance, however, they could cut their LTL expenses by 10%-20%.
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Bass Pro Shops Launches Women’s Apparel Spin-off
Bass Pro Shops is not just about rugged outdoorsmen, and it wants women to know that.
Financial Reports: Schein, Guitar Center, Lenox, Blue Nile
Schein Has Another Shining Quarter Medical, dental, and veterinary supplier Henry Schein reported a 15% increase in first-quarter sales, while first-quarter income more than doubled. For the three months ended March 31, Melville, NY-based Schein netted …
Use the Co-ops to Flag and Drop Dormant Households
Use your co-op databases to flag the households with zero purchasing activity in the last six months, nine months, or 12 months. The co-ops can profile your house file and identify those households that have had zero mail order transactions across all the members of the database.
Financial Reports: Office Max, United Stationers, Cabela’s, Interline Brands
OfficeMax Back in Black Rebounding from a $25.1 million net loss for the first quarter of fiscal 2006, Itasca, IL-based OfficeMax reported net income of $58.6 million for the first quarter of fiscal 2007. For the three months ended March 31, total …
Calendars.com Optimizes Campaigns, Bids
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Neeps Sold to Doctors Foster and Smith
Pet supplies cataloger Doctors Foster and Smith is acquiring pet products Web merchant Neeps for an undisclosed price.
Pets United Acquires State Line Tack
PetSmart sold its State Line Tack equine assets to Pets United, a privately held holding company for a multichannel merchant of pet and equine products.
Financial Update: Bottom Line, a Mixed Fourth Quarter
For the 11 publicly traded business-to-consumer merchants tracked by Multichannel Merchant, fourth-quarter results were mixed. Sales rose for all but two of the companies. But five of the 11 suffered bottom-line erosion.
Minimum Purchase Requirements: Yea or Nay?
Without a doubt, filling one-off orders can get expensive. Whether the sale is worth a few dollars or a few hundred dollars, you still need to track the order; pick, pack, and deliver the product; and invoice the customer.