Scant Increases for Staples

| MCM staff

Fourth-quarter sales for Framingham, MA-based catalog/retailer Staples grew 1%, to $5.3 billion for the three months ended Feb. 2.

Direct Sales Dip for Golfsmith

| MCM staff

For the fourth-quarter ended Dec. 29, sales for Austin, TX-based golf equipment cataloger/retailer Golfsmith increased 5.3%, to $79.0 million, up from $75.0 million for the same period in 2006.

A catalog redo for peanuts

| MCM staff

Peanuts are good, and according to the Peanut Institute, good for you. Bertie County Peanuts has been growing and selling peanuts since 1915, so the company

Lightman out of Sharper Image

| Tim Parry

Just 10 months after taking on the job of rescuing the high-tech gadgets and gifts merchant, Steven Lightman was replaced Feb. 14 as Sharper Image Corp.’s