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 ...

ST. CLOUD (AP) -- A skeleton crew is on hand at Fingerhut Direct Marketing's distribution center here to handle the first incoming orders as the former Fingerhut catalog business resumes under new ...

Hoping to capture a piece of the $60 billion direct-mail business, Montgomery Ward & Co. and Minneapolis-based Fingerhut Companies Inc. Monday announced the formation of a subsidiary to market ...

The Fingerhut catalog is re-launching with a fall/winter book to be mailed Nov. 9. A Web site, www.fingerhut.com, will also be launched sometime in the next 30 days, said Mary Pernula, spokesperson ...

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 ...

Nearly three years to the day after it bought Fingerhut as a means of getting into e-commerce, Federated Department Stores announced on Jan. 16 that it will close down the low-end general merchandise ...

Bluestem Brands, owner of the Fingerhut Catalog, filed for bankruptcy on Monday. The Eden Prairie-based company sold appliances, clothing, and a smattering of other products through its Fingerhut ...

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 ...

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 ...

Every month brings a fresh cascade of data offering conflicting and often contradictory readings on the overall health of the economy. Here's a new one that proves more telling than most: The ...