December Sales Round-Up

| MCM staff

It was a holly, jolly Christmas for many, as most of the publicly traded catalog/retailers tracked by MULTICHANNEL MERCHANT posted strong double-digit sales increases for December.

Strong Quarter for MSC Industrial Direct

| MCM staff

Maintenance repair and operations (MRO) supplier MSC Industrial Direct is off to a good start for the year: For its first quarter of fiscal 2006, which ended Nov. 26, the Melville, NY-based MSC

Holiday 2005: So Far, So Okay

| MCM staff

Back in November, predictions regarding holiday sales ranged from mildly optimistic (up 2%-4% over last year, according to the director of the Purdue Retail Institute and Center for Customer Driven Quality) to strongly so (up 6%, according to the National Retail Federation). So how did the season shake out? Again, it depends on whom you ask.