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 ...

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 ...

Bluestem Brands, owner of the Fingerhut Catalog, filed for bankruptcy on Monday. The Eden Prairie-based company sold appliances, clothing, and a smattering of other products through its Fingerhut ...

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 ...

ST. CLOUD, Minn. -- When the year began, Fingerhut didn't look like it would see 2003. But today, it has a new look and plans for its second major catalog to hit mailboxes next month. Fingerhut Direct ...

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 ...

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 ...