Bad Year, Better Fourth Quarter for Eddie Bauer

| MCM staff

Fourth-quarter direct sales at Eddie Bauer Holdings, the parent company of Redmond, WA-based apparel and home goods cataloger/retailer Eddie Bauer, inched up slightly, to $94.3 million up from $94.1 million for the same period last year.

Mixed Bag For Golfsmith

| MCM staff

For the fourth-quarter ended Dec. 30, sales for Austin, TX-based golf equipment cataloger/retailer Golfsmith increased 4.5%, to $75.0 million, up from $71.8 million for the period in 2005.

Good News For J. Crew

| MCM staff

New York-based apparel cataloger/retailer J. Crew had plenty of good news to report from its fourth-quarter and fiscal 2006 financials. v