New York–The National Retail Federation (NRF) said the retail industry saw better-than-expected sales for both the year 2005 and the 2005 holiday season. But it sees a slowdown for retail in 2006.
New York–The gravestone on the fourth slide of Forrester Research vice president Carrie Johnson’s presentation at the National Retail Federation’s annual convention Monday was the proverbial picture that said 1,000 words. Online Retailing, it declared, is dead. Long live Multichannel Retailing.
Rather than unsubscribing from the lists of e-mailers from whom they no longer want to hear, consumers say they have dramatically increased their use of the
Nearly three out of four direct marketing companies plan to add staff during the first quarter, according to the latest employment survey conducted by Owatonna, MN-based search firm Bernhart Associates Executive Search.
New York–As a kid, learning to play together wasn
In the same Jan. 12 press release in which it announced a 12% rise in holiday sales, Williams-Sonoma said that it would phase out its Hold Everything brand.
In its largest purchase since it was founded in 1978, Atlanta-based Home Depot acquired Hughes Supply, a $4.42 billion distributor of construction materials and products, for $3.47 billion.
On the heels of a profitable 2005, Madison, WI-based Guild.com has 7 million reasons to start off the new year with a bang. Two venture capital firms, New York-based Dolphin Equity Partners and San Francisco-based Equity Partners, have partnered to provide the purveyor of artworks and artisan decor and jewelry with $7 million in funding.
Judging from its most recent quarterly results, Celebrate Express has a reason to rejoice. For its second quarter of fiscal 2006, ended Nov. 30, the Kirkland, WA-based merchant of party supplies, children
Are online merchants starting to take Web buyers for granted? That