Cost Cuts on Sharper Image’s Agenda

| Margery Weinstein

Cost-cutting is a priority for San Francisco-based Sharper Image Corp. this year. Layoffs and decreasing catalog page counts are among the ways that the marketer of high-tech gadgets is coming to terms with the cooling off of its business after several years of intense growth

Lands’ End Trims Staff

| MCM staff

Dodgeville, WI-based Lands’ End announced plans to lay off about 200 full-time and 175 part-time workers, as well as cut a number of seasonal positions.