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 ...

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 ...

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.

MINNEAPOLIS -- Keeping to a schedule announced in January, Federated Department Stores Inc. said it will lay off 3,300 Fingerhut employees next week, including 3,000 in Minnesota. Federated said ...

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 Companies has promoted Steven A Lightman to the role of executive vice president, catalogue. He is now responsible for the operations and management of Fingerhut's core catalogue and ...

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 ...