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 ...

Federated Department Stores Inc. said it will close its Fingerhut catalog business, which it bought in 1999 for $1.7billion. The business employs about 6,000 people, mostly in Minnesota. It’s unlikely ...

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, ...

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 ...