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Sweetwater Sound Inc., a musical instruments marketer, has acquired the assets of Lentine’s Music, a musical equipment direct marketer and retailer, for an undisclosed sum.

M & F Worldwide Corp. will acquire John H. Harland Co., a printer of direct marketing and financial materials, for $1.7 billion.

The Orvis Co. has named Ray McCready president. He moves up from vice president of merchandising and retail, a post he has held for the past five years.

Coldwater Creek has appointed Daniel Griesemer president and chief operating officer.

Borders Group Inc. is cutting back offers in its popular rewards program and is instead offering customers new benefits to earn discounts more quickly, the company said this week

1800 Tequila has resigned SoHo Experiential to expand its two experiential brand programs.

MATTEL: has signed a deal with Oasys Mobile Inc. to expand its distribution of mobile games titles to include Barbie, Uno, Magic 8 Ball and Max Steel.

Shoppers tired of the same old, same old at big box retailers might want to take a look at Etsy.com, an electronic marketplace for small artists and craftspersons.

After working for more than 25 years in local banks, Paula Fondakowski decided to cash it all in for a different kind of green. Last October, she founded GuscleBerry.com, an online garden and home d

In his keynotes and recordings, world-class motivational speaker and sales trainer Zig Ziglar often talks about the importance of having meaningful, specific goals. And he’ll drive home his point with the rhetorical question, “What would you rather be in life, a meaningful specific or a wandering generality?”