Talbots Signs With Li & Fung

| Tim Parry

Woman’s apparel and accessories merchant The Talbots has entered into a buying agency agreement with Li & Fung that will make the Hong Kong-based global consumer goods exporter the exclusive agent for substantially all Talbots apparel products.

Touchstone Gets a New Lease on Life

| Jim Tierney

Gifts and Home Decor Cataloger TouchStone has a New Lease on Life: It was acquired in early June by Gardens Alive! TouchStone founder March Sarah Luce

DRESS BARN SNAPS UP TWEEN BRANDS

| Tim Parry

Women’s Clothing Retailer Dress Barn has Acquired Tween Brands in an All-stock Deal Worth $157 Million. A multichannel retailer of fashion and accessories

DineWise Acquires Home Bistro

| Tim Parry

Gourmet Foods Merchant Home Bistro Foods is Back in Business: Rival prepared-foods merchant DineWise bought the company out of Chapter 11 on June 11.

Inside the Spiegel Sale

| MCM staff

For the Second Time in Less than a Year, Spiegel Brands has a New Owner. Signature Styles, a newly formed division of private equity firm Patriarch Partners,

Good deals, bad deals

| MCM staff

A Flurry of Multichannel M&A activity took place during the past few weeks. Some of these transactions were happy ones, relatively speaking, in that they

Sensory overload

| MCM staff

Banner Engineering Corp. is a global leader in process and industrial automation, thanks to its serious selection of sensors. The Minneapolis-based manufacturer/merchant

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.

Sales Slip Slightly for Transcat

| MCM staff

Revenue for test, measurement and calibration instruments distributor Transcat decreased 3.6%, from from $17.9 million to $17.2 million for the first quarter of its fiscal 2010, which ended June 27.

Zappos.com Fits For Amazon

| Tim Parry

If the shoe fits, wear it. That’s a big reason Amazon.com decided to spend more than $850 million in a non-cash deal to acquire online shoe and apparel giant Zappos.com.