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 ...

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Jan. 17 -- 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 ...

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 ...

Peter Lytle plans to hold onto all of the assets of Fingerhut Cos. Inc. and to keep existing senior staffers if his bid to purchase the company is successful, said Marshall Masko, Lytle’s partner in ...

MINNEAPOLIS -- Former Fingerhut Cos. catalog subsidiaries Figi's and Arizona Mail Order have been sold by Federated Department Stores Inc. to JPMorgan Partners LLC, the private equity arm of J.P.

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 ...

Federated Department Stores’ decision to rid itself of its Fingerhut subsidiary didn’t surprise most industry observers. After all, Federated had been reevaluating its ownership of Minnetonka, ...

ST. CLOUD, Minn. -- When the year began, Fingerhut didn't look like it would see 2003. But today, it has a new look and plans for its second major catalog to hit mailboxes next month. Fingerhut Direct ...