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Despite continuing financial woes for Talbots and disappointing figures for the Sharper Image Corp. - down 2 percent and 33 percent respectively - February brought growth in direct sales and overall revenue to the publicly traded cataloger/retailers tracked by Multichannel Merchant.
Sales for Neiman Marcus Direct and Victoria’s Secret Direct increased 9 percent and 10 percent respectively.
Men’s apparel cataloger/retailer Jos. A. Bank Clothers had a 38 percent increase in its combined internet and catalog sales for the fiscal month.
J.C. Penny Co. reported a 4.5 percent increase in direct sales, amounting to $209 million for the month. The cataloger/retailers had a 24 percent increase in internet sales, increasing total company sales 4 percent to $1.3 billion.
The Spanish Radio Association says Arbitron still has not addressed its concerns and research questions regarding the PPM and how “Hispanics are recruited and represented, and how the PPM panel is maintained.”
The SRA has been working with Arbitron in…
The Chicago Tribune’s new design will launch on Sept. 29, Tribune Co. chief operating officer Randy Michaels says. No details on the redesign have been released; the paper has already been decreasing its editorial pages to create a more even split…
Teens are not the best demo to target with cell phone advertising, according to a new study from comScore. Though they are cell phone-savvy, most of them - 70 percent - have their phones paid for by parents, which means…
CNN won its second night of coverage of the Democratic National Convention Tuesday. The network averaged 3.41 million viewers in the 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. time slot, despite the fact that Fox drew nearly even for the night.
Fox…
Generation Y is the most self-indulgent, Generation X is the most innovative, and Boomers are the most productive, while the “Silent Generation” and the “Greatest Generation” are the most admired, according to a recent survey by Harris Interactive, writes MarketingCharts.
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To encourage shoppers to buy more back-to-school items, retailers often implement “loss leader” strategies: that is, selling items at a loss or even giving them away in hopes that the reductions will attract shoppers who will then buy other, more…
