Home Depot Mulls Alternatives for HD Supply

| MCM staff

Atlanta-based Home Depot is evaluating strategic alternatives for its HD Supply business, including a possible sale, spin-off, or initial public offering.

Unlocking the Secrets of Co-Reg

| David Rosen

. Media technology companies reinvented co-reg. What was a pretty informal way for like companies to partner with each other became a huge and mostly misunderstood channel for acquiring massive quantities of leads.

Brady Corp. Acquires Clement Communications

| Jim Tierney

Officials at Brady Corp., a Milwaukee-based manufacturer/marketer of industrial signage, security, and safety products, believe they have found a perfect complement in the company

Golden Gate subsidiary to buy Blair Corp.

| MCM staff

On Jan. 23, four days after making a preliminary offer to buy the remaining shares of Blair Corp. that it didn’t already own, Appleseed’s Topco, a portfolio

Third quarter’s not the charm

| Jim Tierney

All but one of the publicly traded consumer merchants tracked by Multichannel Merchant increased their third-quarter sales in 2006. On the other side

Adding a persona touch

| Tim Parry

Ask anyone at women’s apparel cataloger/retailer Appleseed’s to describe Kate, and they will tell you that Kate is a baby boomer, a mother maybe even

RESOURCE GUIDE: POS software

| MCM staff

Historically point-of-sale (POS) systems didn’t do much more than record customers’ purchases and calculate change. Today’s systems, however, can administer