Henry Schein to Buy Three Darby Assets

| Mark Del Franco

Medical and dental giant Henry Schein just got a little bigger. On June 21 the $4.6 billion merchant said it would acquire three divisions of Jericho, NY-based Darby Group Cos. for $51.5 million

Sigma Micro to Acquire Quark Commerce

| MCM staff

Indianapolis-based software provider Sigma Micro agreed to acquire the intellectual property of Quark Commerce software from Denver-based Quark.

School Specialty Posts a 4Q Loss

| MCM staff

While multititle educational products cataloger School Specialty posted record sales for fiscal 2006, the Greenville, WI-based company recorded a loss for the fourth quarter.

Using Ink-jet Messages to Turbocharge Response

| Jim Coogan

Why customize your ink-jet messages? People read their ink-jet messages because the message has their name and address. Catalog buyers are also trained to look for promotional offers in the message portion of their ink-jet address. Ink-jet personalization is the poor man

WE’RE NUMBER TWO!

| Timothy Daly

In sports, being number one is the primary goal, the reason for being. But when it comes to paid search engine marketing (SEM), being number one bidding

Time for a change?

| Tim Parry

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it: We’ve all heard that adage. But sometimes it’s tough to tell whether something is broken until it’s far too late for

Movers & shakers

| MCM staff

W.W. Grainger, the Lake Forest, IL-based industrial distributor, has promoted James T. Ryan to president. Ryan was most recently group president for the

Home Depot buys HDC

| MCM staff

Further proof that Home Depot wants to be a major player in the direct-to-consumer home decor market: On April 25 the Atlanta-based retail giant announced