Deciding whether to operate retail and direct divisions separately or together can be a taxing decision for a marketer. When the units are run as independent companies, the catalog division does not ...

LACONIA — While it is now a behemoth in the women's apparel market with more than $434 million in sales in 2004, the company known as the J. Jill Group was supported in the 1990s by a small group of ...

The retailer has a mix of in-store and direct-to-consumer sales. At a time when many mall retailers have been struggling to stay in business, women's fashion retailer J. Jill plans to go public. It is ...

CHICAGO (MarketWatch) -- The J. Jill Group, buoyed by better than projected holiday-catalog sales and customers more apt to buy clothing and accessories at full price, said Wednesday that it is now ...

Talbots Inc. said Monday that it had agreed to acquire women’s apparel retailer J. Jill Group Inc. for about $517 million, trumping an earlier unsolicited offer from Liz Claiborne Inc., which said it ...

J Jill, a retailer of its own brands of women’s apparel, is not sizzling right now. And that, in my experience, is the best time to consider buying a such a stock. But this isn’t a naive ...

JILL has done a tremendous job improving its margins and profitability. Deleveraging should be the next step in its turnaround. With a 28% FCF yield, JILL stock is way to cheap to ignore. A largely ...