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 ...

Ted Deikel became the boss of Fingerhut Cos. again on Wednesday as he and partner Tom Petters finalized a deal to buy the Minnetonka, MN-based catalog company from Federated Department Stores Inc.

NEW YORK — Federated Department Stores Wednesday finally pulled the plug on its troubled Fingerhut subsidiary. The company announced plans to sell the internet and catalog operation and expects to ...

Ted Deikel, the former owner of Fingerhut Cos., and a partner plan to buy parts of the catalog retailer from Federated Department Stores Inc. Deikel, and his partner, Tom Petters, said they had ...

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 ...

Fingerhut employees had heard rumors for at least two weeks that Federated Department Stores Inc. was planning cuts in its catalog retailing unit. But they didn't expect Federated to pull the plug on ...

If you’re a Fingerhut shopper looking for ways to reduce your personal debt, bulk up your savings account or otherwise improve your financial bottom line, the single best thing you can do is stop ...

MINNEAPOLIS -- Fingerhut Cos., one of the state's largest and most geographically diverse employers, is on the verge of collapse. Its parent company, Federated Department Stores, said Wednesday it ...

NEW YORK — Federated Department Stores Inc. has reached a definitive agreement to sell certain Fingerhut assets to FAC Acquisitions LLC, owned by Thomas Petters and former Fingerhut chief executive ...

Every month brings a fresh cascade of data offering conflicting and often contradictory readings on the overall health of the economy. Here's a new one that proves more telling than most: The ...