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 ...

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, ...

ST. CLOUD, Minn. -- In another sign that it may pull back from the brink of closing down, Fingerhut Cos. is working on a new catalog. Catalog production employees in Mora and other offices around the ...

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 ...

Federated Department Stores Inc. said it is moving to close its Fingerhut catalog and Internet operations, completely dismantling the bold and costly e-commerce foray it made nearly three years ago.

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 ...

Fingerhut Cos. Inc. promoted Steven Lightman to executive vice president of its catalog unit. He replaces Dick Tate, who retired as president of Fingerhut catalog May 1. Lightman previously served as ...

CINCINNATI -- About 300 people marched and blew whistles Friday outside the headquarters of Federated Department Stores Inc. to protest the possible shutdown of money-losing Fingerhut Cos., its ...

A former Arizona Mail Order president has been named Fingerhut’s executive vice president of catalog. Steven Lightman becomes the Minnetonka, MN-based cataloger’s No. 2 man, after company president ...