Conney Safety Products Sold

| Mark Del Franco

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.

Prime real estate

| Mark Del Franco

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,

Across the street and into the warehouse

| MCM staff

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.

Merchandising 2.0

| Curt Barry

As much as we hear these days about Web 2.0, e-commerce isn’t the only facet of multichannel marketing to advance. The best retailers are taking their merchandising strategies to new and higher levels

Work It Out

| MCM staff

Good help is always hard to find, but in retail, attracting and retaining workers is near impossible. How dismal is workforce loyalty in retail? According

Inside storage and inventory control

| Kate Vitasek

Distribution center storage and inventory control may not seem like the sexiest parts of a multichannel business. But unless you have the product in stock

Spotlight on NCOF

| MCM staff

Welcome to our continuing series highlighting the speakers of the National Conference on Operations & Fulfillment, which Multichannel Merchant co-sponsors

Are You Ready for a Third Party Logistics Provider?

| Ron Cain

One area where successful companies are increasingly applying their adaptability is in their logistics and supply chain operations by outsourcing to a third-party logistics provider (3PL).