ChoicePoint Income Slips 14%
ChoicePoint posted net income of $23.7 million for the fourth quarter, a 14% decline from net income of $27.7 million in the prior-year period. ...
Appleseeds to Acquire Blair for $173.6 Million
Appleseed's Topco Inc. a unit of Golden Gate Capital, will acquire Blair Corp. for $173.6 million. ...
Yankee Candle OK's Acquisition
The Yankee Candle Co. Inc. has approved Madison Dearborn Partners LLC's $1.7 billion acquisition of the firm....
Story Worldwide Acquires Byte Interactive
Story Worldwide has acquired Byte Interactive LLC for undisclosed terms. The combined agencies employ more than 160 people in Seattle, New York, South Norwalk, CT and London....
Omniture Acquires Instadia
Omniture Inc. has acquired Instadia, a Danish Web analytics provider, for an undisclosed sum. ...
Coldwater Creek Downgrades Earlier Financial Estimates
Coldwater Creek expects to post earnings per share for its fiscal 2006 fourth quarter, ending Feb. 3 in the range of 16 to 17 cents per share, down from earlier estimates of 26 to 27 cents per share. ...
SheerVision Losses Grow
SheerVision Inc., an online marketer of surgical loupes and light systems, posted a net loss of $325,768 for the first quarter, compared to a net loss of $131,102 in hr prior-year. ...
Strong Fourth Quarter Employment Picture Holds in First Quarter: Survey
Two-thirds of all marketers plan to add staff during the first quarter of 2007, a figure that held steady with fourth-quarter 2006's level, according to the latest employment survey by Bernhart Associates Executive Search, LLC. ...
85% of DMers Will Boost Online Spend in 2007: Report
Direct marketers will make online activities a big priority in 2007, according to a survey by Chicago-based marketing software maker Alterian....
Restoration Hardware Holiday Revenue Grows 22%
Restoration Hardware Inc. posted net revenue of $173.2 million for the nine weeks ended Dec. 30, a 22% gain over $142 million during the prior year....
DM Good, But Retail Better, For Tiffany's Holiday Sales
Tiffany & Co.'s direct marketing sales during the holiday season -- Nov. 1 through Dec. 31 -- rose a healthy 10%, to $69.7 million, over the same period in 2005. The New York-based jeweler attributed the increase to an uptick in both the number of orders and order value....
Preliminary Numbers Off For Eddie Bauer's Fourth Quarter
Eddie Bauer racked up $365 million in net sales, up slightly from $361 million in fourth-quarter 2005. Comparable store sales for the fourth quarter of 2006 increased 4.6% from the fourth quarter of 2005, while sales from the Redmond, WA-based company's direct channel, which includes sales from its catalogs and Web sites, were up 0.1%. ...
Short Cuts
Texas Pacific Group, a private investment firm, will offer 7.5 million shares of apparel marketer J. Crew's common stock. ...
Direct Group Takes Over HintonHill
The direct marketing services agency Direct Group has acquired HintonHill, a direct marketing management and consulting firm. Terms were not disclosed. ...
Acxiom Acquires Equitec to Expand in Retail Sector
Data services firm Acxiom Corp. has acquired Equitec, a Cleveland-OH based retail merchandising firm. Terms for this transaction have not been disclosed. ...
MSC Posts Income and Sales Gains
MSC Industrial Direct Co. Inc. posted net income of $40.3 million for the first quarter, a 26.2% increase over $31.9 million in the prior year. ...
West Marine Direct Sales Up Slightly
West Marine Inc. posted catalog and Internet sales of $43.2 million for the year ended Dec. 30, a 0.7% increase over $40.4 in the prior year. ...
Sharper Image Reports Sales Declines
Sharper Image Corp. posted total sales of $117.7 million for December, a 22% drop from $150.3 million in the prior year....
Arcadia Resources Wins $10 Million in New Financing
Arcadia Resources, a mail order pharmacy and medical supplies cataloger, has completed of a new round of $10 million financing. The Shemano Group acted as placement agent....
Short Cuts
The board of directors of MSC Industrial Direct Co. Inc. has declared a quarterly dividend of 14 cents per share payable on Jan. 23 to shareholders of record at the close of business on Jan. 9....
Alliance Data Systems to Acquire Abacus
Alliance Data Systems Corp.'s Epsilon unit will acquire Abacus from DoubleClick Inc. for $435 million. ...
Penney Axes Chief Operating Officer
J. C. Penney Co. Inc. has fired executive vice president and chief operating officer Catherine West but gave no reason. ...
PayPerPost to Acquire Assets of Performancing.com
PayPerPost, a new service that offers to match companies with bloggers who will write about them in return for cash, has signed a letter of intent to acquire some assets of Performancing LLC, operator of Performancing.com, an Internet community site for professional bloggers. ...
Canadian Online Sales to Reach $8.3 Billion
Canadian online sales are expected to reach $8.3 billion this year, a 25% gain over last year and next year, that number will reach 26.3%, according to EMarketer. ...
Publicis to Acquire Digitas for $1.3 Billion
Publicis Groupe will acquire Digitas Inc. for $1.3 billion. ...
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