FAO Schwarz in Store for Chicago Macy’s
Although FAO Schwarz closed down most of its stores five years ago, the upscale toy retailer is easing back into retail.
Cross Channel
Conney Safety Products Sold
Nine years after buying the business, K+K America sold Conney Safety Products to private equity firm Caxton-Iseman Capital for $48 million. GMAC Commercial Finance and BlackRock Kelso Capital Corp. provided financing for the transaction announced Oct. 2.
Five Must-Haves to Move Transactional E-mails
According to a new white paper by e-mail marketer ExactTarget, no other message is as personal, relevant, and anticipated as a transactional e-mail. But most merchants have little or no visibility into the performance of transactional e-mails
Segmenting Multichannel Buyers
Until recently, many catalogers were segmenting their buyer files by order channel, not by channel of origin. But segmenting by channel of origin in increasingly popular for true multichannel merchants. Why? Click here for more.
Redcats USA acquires United Retail Group
Could Redcats USA be contemplating retail? The multititle cataloger announced on Sept. 11 it bought plus-size women’s apparel retailer United Retail Group for $198.9 million, or $13.70 per share in cash.
Pets United goes after new animal
First it was dogs and horses. Then it was fish and ferrets. Now Pets United is setting its sights on sites outside the pet industry by acquiring URLs
Straight-on e-mail
The Lenox Group was hardly what you’d call database-poor. It had one for its catalog, another for its stores, and still another file for its e-mail addresses.
Reaping revenue from roving holidays
Are you counting the days until Christmas? You should be consumer merchants this year receive an early in the form of an additional selling day. In 2006
Merchandising 2.0
As much as we hear these days about Web 2.0, e-commerce isn’t the only facet of multichannel marketing to advance. The best retailers are taking their merchandising strategies to new and higher levels
Stellar second quarter
Nearly all of the business-to-business and computer marketers tracked by Multichannel Merchant turned in superb performances during the second quarter.