The private-equity owner of the women’s clothing catalogs Spiegel and Newport News is close to buying Massachusetts-based mail-order company Appleseed’s, according to sources familiar with the deal.

Spiegel purchase: Downers Grove-based Spiegel Catalog Inc., which markets women’s apparel and home furnishings, said it agreed to acquire from specialty retailer J. Crew the business of Clifford & ...

Spiegel Inc., parent of the Eddie Bauer chain, filed for bankruptcy protection Monday as it tries to recover from problems in its credit card business, which analysts said extended credit to ...

Spiegel Inc. didn’t look far to find a buyer for its 99-year-old namesake catalog. A group whose partners include a former Spiegel vice president has agreed to buy the Chicago-born Big Book from the ...

CHICAGO, July 20 (UPI) -- Illinois' Spiegel Catalog has been sold to the same investor-manager group that bought its sister Newport News catalog, the Sun-Times reported Tuesday. The new owners are ...

Analysts said the new catalog wasn’t successful enough to boost the company’s lagging sales. The book on the Big Book: It won’t be an easy sell. After Spiegel Inc. put its Eddie Bauer division up for ...

The company’s call center in Hampton wasn’t included in the $25 million sale to Pangea. The Spiegel Group announced on Tuesday that Pangea Holdings Ltd. had agreed to acquire Newport News Inc., a ...

CHICAGO - Spiegel Inc., parent of Eddie Bauer and the Spiegel Catalog, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Monday amid a worsening cash crisis. The apparel and home furnishings retailer said it ...