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A.B. Lambdin, a $15 million swimsuit cataloger, has been sold to ABL Holdings Corp., an entity formed specifically for the deal. ABL

Milwaukee-based National Business Furniture has agreed to be acquired by Takkt, the Stuttgart, Germany-based multititle merchant whose U.S. properties include industrial supplier K+K America.

Hazelton, PA-based Pets United, the parent company of cataloger The Dog

Plano, TX-based PFSweb hopes to go beyond offering e-commerce solutions for online merchants to becoming an online merchant: It has agreed to buy online discount retailer eCost.com

Philadelphia-based Urban Outfitters, the multichannel apparel and home goods merchant whose brands
include Anthropologie and Free People, posted a 32% jump
in third-quarter direct sales.

Red ink for b-to-b sportswear distributor Broder Bros., a decline in income from continuing operations for PC Mall–but good news from online jeweler Blue Nile.

New York–Traditional direct marketers who believe a campaign’s success depends 80% on the offer and the people it reaches would have been hard pressed to find a point with which they could relate in the Monday afternoon keynote at this week’s Ad:Tech conference.

If October sales from the publicly traded cataloger/retailers tracked by MULTICHANNEL MERCHANT are a harbinger of holiday sales, some merchants whill be singing of a blue Christmas.