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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Brennan said that while other catalog firms were considered for the partnership, none came close to the potential offered by Fingerhut. ”There really was no other candidate,” he said. In June ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A reduction in operations and the elimination of 550 positions are a small part of Fingerhut's business plan to make the catalog profitable, company officials have said. But to critics, it's just ...