Sometime between Labor Day and the Autumnal Equinox, you may have missed some of Multichannel Merchant’s content. Let’s get you caught up on some of our most-popular articles for September.
Since the news broke that multititle mailer Orchard Brands is for sale and that parent company Golden Gate Capital hired Moelis & Co. to find a buyer, industry experts are wondering what befell the $1.17 billion catalog business
It’s beginning to look like a happier holiday season for the retail industry. A day after the National Retail Federation said it’s projecting a 2.3% rise in holiday sales for 2010, several merchants reported better-than-expected numbers for September.
Lifestyle apparel and home decor merchant Urban Outfitters seems to do everything right. But like many multichannel, multititle retailers, Urban Outfitters has struggled with channel competition.
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters acquired LJVH Holdings, the parent company of Canadian gourmet coffee brand Van Houtte, for $890 million. The deal was announced Sept. 14 in Green Mountain
MailExpress, a national business-to-consumer lightweight package delivery company, is now known as Streamlite. Atlanta-based Streamlite specializes in low-cost, trackable delivery of parcels weighing 5 lbs. or less.
It was widely reported this summer that retailers were paying at least twice as much as last year in cargo freight costs, thanks to rising demand for imports combined with shrinking space on cargo ships. The situation in early summer had some merchants fearing they wouldn
Just Three Catalog-Related Deals were reported in the second quarter a far cry from the 10 we reported in the second quarter last year. While the quarter
While seed mailers tend to do well in a recession, their ornamental plant counterparts tend to struggle. Which means the timing of George W. Park Seed Co.’s 2007 acquisition of Jackson & Perkins Co. may have put both merchants on a crash course with Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
The average U.S. family is expected to spend 10.5% more during the 2010 back-to-school shopping season than they did last year, according to the National Retail Federation