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1-800-Flowers.com seeks a buyer for its home and children’s gifts business

Though 1-800-Flowers.com Inc. now lists its home and children’s gifts business as a discontinued operation, the company continues to actively seek a buyer. 1-800-Flowers.com has retained Paragon Capital Group LLC to help evaluate potential offers.

Posted 08/28/2009Don DavisPost a comment

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Web sales drop for 1-800-Flowers.com in fiscal 2009

Cost-cutting measures will save the company $50 million in the next fiscal year, but it was still a tough fourth quarter and fiscal 2009 for 1-800-Flowers.com Inc. Web sales in Q4 and fiscal 2009 declined by 10.5% and 14.7%, respectively.

Posted 08/20/2009Katie DeatschPost a comment

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IRCE 2009 session addresses how to tie online sales back to ads

Even though e-commerce has transitioned sales tracking from art to science, there still are some unsolved mysteries. One of them is apportioning credit for a sale when there are multiple paths possible, says George Michie of The Rimm-Kaufman Group.

Posted 06/11/2009Paul DemeryPost a comment

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A new president blooms at FTD Group

United Online has appointed Robert S. Apatoff president of the company’s FTD Group Inc. subsidiary. Apatoff previously was managing director at Patriarch Partners, a private equity investment firm.

Posted 10/20/2008Katie DeatschPost a comment

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Liberty Media will buy online retailer Celebrate Express for $31 million

Liberty Media Corp. announced it will purchase e-retailer and cataloger Celebrate Express for $31 million in cash. The deal is expected to close in the third quarter and is subject to stockholder approval.

Posted 06/27/2008Katie DeatschPost a comment

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ProFlowers` parent purchases assets of troubled RedEnvelope

Gift e-retailer RedEnvelope has found a buyer, and it’s not the one the company announced earlier this year. Provide Commerce, parent of ProFlowers.com, said yesterday it has acquired the assets of RedEnvelope, which filed for bankruptcy in April.

Posted 05/28/2008Bill BriggsPost a comment

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Third quarter web revenue blooms slightly for FTD

U.S. web sales for FTD.com grew by 2.8% to about $73.3 million in the third quarter from $71.3 million a year earlier. FTD, which expects to be acquired by United Online, posted international e-commerce sales of $47.5 million.

Posted 05/14/2008Bill BriggsPost a comment

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FTD consumer web sales drop in Q2

U.S. consumers didn’t purchase as many flowers online and by phone at FTD Group in the second quarter of fiscal 2008. For Q2, FTD’s domestic consumer web sales dropped by 6.8% to about $57.5 million.

Posted 02/06/2008Bill BriggsPost a comment