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Sales from Aramark’s direct marketing business, which includes public-safety supplier Galls, workwear merchant WearGuard, and Crest Uniform Healthcare, fell 2 percent from last years, while fourth quarter sales fell 5 percent, writes Multichannel Merchant.Overall, Aramark Corp. sales saw a 6 percent increase over the previous year.
The closure in the fourth quarter of the struggling Crest healthcare catalogs contributed to the operating loss.
Total sales for Q3 of Talbots climbed 33 percent, as a result of the acquisition in May of J. Jill Group, but while Talbots same-store sales rose more than 2 percent, same store sales for J. Jill fell almost 7 percent. Net income plummeted from $19.9 million to $8 million in the third quarter.
Charming Shoppes’ net income soared 80 percent; officials attributed much of the growth to lower levels of season inventory, which led to an improved merchandise margin. Net sales rose nearly 5 percent for the quarter, while sales for the direct-to-consumer segment, consisting primarily of the Crosstown Traders catalogs and websites, fell 17 percent.
Though off-air online and experiential advertising grew modestly as a part of the overall radio revenue pie, and election-related political ads increased in Q3, total radio ad revenues were down 9% to $4.97 billion for Q3 and down 10% for…
Glamour magazine is running its photo of Britney Spears not only on the cover of the U.S. edition, but on the covers in seven other countries, as well.
Britney will grace Russia, Sweden and Greece’s editions of Glamour, among others.…
Titan Worldwide has signed a five-year deal with the Delaware River Port Authority to manage out-of-home advertising for the Port Authority Transit corp.
The contract covers advertising on PATCO’s rail service and stations between Southern New Jersey and Philadelphia, writes Mediaweek.…
Publicis has acquired full-service agency W&K Communications, continuing its Asia expansion that began several years ago.
W&K will be pulled under the umbrella of Publicis’s Burnett agency network, and will be renamed Leo Burnett Beijing Advertising, writes Adweek.
Other recent Publicis…
With only four weeks separating Thanksgiving and Christmas this year, Cyber Monday One (December 1) and Cyber Monday Two (December 
may command a greater share of online sales than they have in years past - thus increasing the importance…
Top American non-luxury auto brands received higher ratings and less negative comments from online consumers than competing Japanese brands, according to an analysis of consumer opinions collected from automotive review websites by Biz360, MarketingCharts reports.
The research, which aggregated a year’s…
