Ebay had the right idea but the wrong execution
Ebay recently announced that it would be taking a $1.43 billion loss this year because they overvalued Skype in its 2005 acquisition of the company
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A Few Thoughts about WMS Integration
Every distribution center requires the functions provided by a warehouse management mystem (WMS) to control inventory movements, from receiving and put-away to picking and packing well as the management of returns.
Conney Safety Products Sold
Nine years after buying the business, K+K America sold Conney Safety Products to private equity firm Caxton-Iseman Capital for $48 million. GMAC Commercial Finance and BlackRock Kelso Capital Corp. provided financing for the transaction announced Oct. 2.
Segmenting Multichannel Buyers
Until recently, many catalogers were segmenting their buyer files by order channel, not by channel of origin. But segmenting by channel of origin in increasingly popular for true multichannel merchants. Why? Click here for more.
Prime real estate
Boden, the British apparel cataloger, was nearing annual sales of $100 million in the United States. But it had to ship every order from its Leicester,
Thermo Fisher Scientific buys Davis Inotek Instruments
Business-to-businesses industrial products manufacturer/marketer Thermo Fisher Scientific announced Sept. 5 it has acquired the $30 million instrument sales business of Davis Inotek Instruments.
Across the street and into the warehouse
Time to visit the lifeblood of any catalog business: the distribution center. But to get to Orchard Brands’ DC from headquarters, you must cross the street.
Redcats USA acquires United Retail Group
Could Redcats USA be contemplating retail? The multititle cataloger announced on Sept. 11 it bought plus-size women’s apparel retailer United Retail Group for $198.9 million, or $13.70 per share in cash.
A hankering for hard goods
When Golden Gate Capital started its catalog acquisition binge about three years ago, the joke around the office was that very soon the private equity
Sears stores find a fit for Lands’ End
Sears Holdings Corp. has taken a lot of heat during the past five years for the way it’s handled the integration of the Lands’ End apparel catalog brand. But the retailer seems to have found a strategy that works: the store-within-a-store.