After 54 years, the final Fingerhut catalog will hit mailboxes next week. Layoffs of the more than 6,000 employees will begin in earnest by the end of February and be completed this summer. “We’re ...
FAC Acquisitions, which bought defunct general merchandise catalog Fingerhut from Federated Department Stores in July, got Fingerhut back in the mail just in time for the holidays. At press time the ...
I was over at a friend’s house the other day and saw that she’d gotten a Fingerhut catalog. It had come to her home in the name of a previous resident. But seeing it brought back memories of how, for ...
The new Fingerhut fall/winter catalog, which dropped Nov. 9, will appeal to the same sub-prime-credit demographic as the old Fingerhut catalog. “That’s what works in our opinion,” said Mary Pernula, ...
MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 17 (UPI) -- Employees of Fingerhut Cos., a 54-year-old catalog retailer that sold clear and quilted plastic seat covers to generations of new car owners, learned Wednesday the next ...
Quad/Graphics Inc. said Wednesday that it has been awarded a multiyear contract worth more than $450 million to print all 13 of Bluestem Brands’ online retail brands, including ongoing printing of ...
A reduction in operations and the elimination of 550 positions are a small part of Fingerhut's business plan to make the catalog profitable, company officials have said. But to critics, it's just ...
Bluestem Brands Inc., which for decades has been selling everything from apparel to appliances through its Fingerhut catalogs, filed for bankruptcy Monday with a deal to sell its business to Cerberus ...