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New plant cultivars appeal, but will they perform?

...investing, find out if the cultivars you desire have been shown to perform well in Minnesota gardens." Nurseries and catalog retailers should provide customers with the best performing plant selections for the climate and other growing conditions of...

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...projects. Anyone interested in volunteering or with project ideas may contact the United Way office at 829-2619. Catalog retailer to go out of business LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) -- J. Peterman, the upscale company that offered catalog subscribers...

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Names and faces

...his "Boone Booties." Now, anyone can have official Pat Boone white bucks for $59.95. Beginning March 26, catalog retailer Blair Corp. will sell the shoes on the singer's The Gold Label Web site (http://www.patsgold.com...

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Twin Cities businessman may make bid to purchase Fingerhut

...businesses and credit problems hurt Fingerhut's financial performance. Fingerhut, one of the nation's largest catalog retailers, has 4,700 workers in Minnesota and 1,300 in Tennessee. It employs 2,700 at a warehouse and distribution...

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Federated: It will deal Fingerhut, not shutter it

...their retail lives miserable," he said. Fingerhut, founded in Minneapolis in 1948, grew into one of the largest catalog retailers in the country with nearly $2 billion in annual sales. It employs 4,700 in Minnesota and 1,300 in Tennessee...

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Ventura to meet with Federated execs

...Economic development commissioner Rebecca Yanisch briefed Ventura Monday on Federated's plans to sell Fingerhut, a catalog retailer that employs 4,700 people in Minnesota. Ventura was on vacation when Federated announced the plan. Meanwhile...

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Fingerhut hearings held at Capitol

...session to help workers who may be laid off at the catalog retailer. Senate and House committees held hearings on the...examined Fingerhut's assets and found that the catalog retailer is far more valuable to the state as a single company...

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Lytle signs agreement for Fingerhut; Deikel waits in wings

...Fingerhut Cos. But the company's former chief executive Ted Deikel says he's ready if Lytle can't buy the catalog retailer from Federated Department Stores Inc. A company led by Lytle, Business Development Group Acquisitions Inc. of...

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Deikel keeps his offer for Fingerhut open

...CLOUD (AP) -- Former Fingerhut chief executive Ted Deikel said Friday he'll stand by with his offer to buy the catalog retailer from Federated Department Stores Inc. After Federated two weeks ago signed a non-binding agreement to sell Fingerhut...

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512 more Fingerhut workers get layoff notice

...60-day notices to another 512 Fingerhut workers this week as it continued to pare down operations of the Internet and catalog retailer while awaiting a buyer. The notices, mandated by the federal government, were sent to 330 workers in St. Cloud...

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