ORCHARD BRANDS ACQUIRES LINEN SOURCE

| Jim Tierney

MULTITITLE MAILER ORCHARD BRANDS in March purchased home goods catalog Linen Source. Investment bank Tully & Holland initiated the transaction and acted

Video Works for E-mail too

| Sherry Chiger

If streaming video can increase visitor engagement and conversion rates, then it stands to reason that embedding videos in e-mail should increase reader

Two More Acquisitions for Sport Supply Group

| Jim Tierney

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.

BACHRACH ASSETS SOLD

| Jim Tierney

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

Alternative payment methods gain acceptance

| Tim Parry

To get a bigger piece of the e-commerce pie, more merchants are offering alternative payment methods. According to the 2009 fourth-quarter mystery shopping