The Year in Review: 2005
There are two year-end traditions you can count on from the media: a review of the year that
There are two year-end traditions you can count on from the media: a review of the year that
Now that multichannel retailing is well established, merger and acquisition activity is picking up markedly in the sector. According to Petsky Prunier LLC, an investment bank specializing in direct marketing deals, for the first nine months of 2005, M&As among marketing service, marketing technology, and multichannel marketer companies totaled 351 transactions and represented $38.5 billion in estimated transaction value. The nine-month transaction dollar volume is a record, up 66% from the same period last year. This period was also characterized by larger transactions: The median direct marketing industry transaction during year-to-date 2005 was $18.5 million, up 85% from $10 million during the same period in 2004.
The parent company of Experian went shopping for a comparison shopping engine this holiday season and apparently found a bargain. British retail and business services provider GUS announced last week that its Experian division has bought PriceGrabber.com for $485 million.
In the latest nod to the power of the Web community, Yahoo! last week launched Yahoo! Answers, a service in which seekers can pose questions that are too complex for simple search engines and get their answers from actual human beings
Privately held Olivette, MO-based Home Delivery Incontinent Supplies Co. (HDIS) has acquired Mail Order Medical Supply (MOMS).
Experian has significantly added to its lead-referral arsenal with the acquisition of comparison-shopping site PriceGrabber.com.
Lon Mandel,
CEO of Weehawken, NJ-based Specialists, bought the list management, brokerage,compilation, and insert media business back from Nashville, TN-based ClientLogic.
In-flight co-op cataloger SkyMall has been sold by GemStar-TV Guide to Spire Capital and ZelnickMedia Corp. for $52 million. The transaction closed on Dec. 1
When customer service pundit Ron Willingham decided to buy a TV set, he expected the process to be fairly straightforward. As head of Integrity Systems,
San Francisco-based Golden Gate Capital Corp. is well on the way to becoming a major player on the women’s apparel catalog scene. The private equity firm,