Tate Named President, Fingerhut Catalog; Doepke Returns as Merchandising Vice President.MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 11, 1999-- Richard Tate, senior vice president, merchandising, Fingerhut Companies, Inc.(NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :FD), has been named president of the Fingerhut Catalog. The move will help facilitate the continued growth of Fingerhut's base business and effect greater synergies between the company's marketing and merchandising functions. In his new role, Tate will oversee the 50-year-old Fingerhut catalog business, the core business of the corporation. "Dick is a great merchant and a true leader, and is the perfect person to provide integrated leadership for our base business," said Will Lansing, chief executive officer of Fingerhut. Tate joined Fingerhut in 1989 as a vice president of merchandising for housewares house·wares pl.n. Cooking utensils, dishes, and other small articles used in a household, especially in the kitchen. , home accessories and furniture. In 1995 Tate was promoted to senior vice president, with responsibilities for all merchandising. Tate is a member of the company's management committee. Prior to joining Fingerhut, Tate held merchandising management roles with Cable Value Network, Dayton Hudson, Bradlees, and Allied Stores Allied Stores was a department store chain in the United States. It was founded in the 1930s as part of a general consolidation in the retail sector. See also Associated Dry Goods. It was the successor to Hahn's Department Stores, a holding company founded in 1928. . Tate holds a BA degree from the University of Minnesota (body, education) University of Minnesota - The home of Gopher. http://umn.edu/. Address: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. . Connie Waters Doepke returns to Fingerhut as a merchandising vice president, responsible for apparel and jewelry. She reports to Dick Tate. Doepke was most recently president of her own Minneapolis consulting company Noun 1. consulting company - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee consulting firm business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a specializing in strategic planning Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people. , marketing and merchandising for retail and direct marketing companies. While at Fingerhut previously, Doepke was vice president of merchandising for apparel and cosmetics. Fingerhut Companies, Inc. is a leading database marketing company selling a broad range of products and services through catalogs, direct marketing, and the Internet. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Federated Connected and treated as one. See federated database and federated directories. Department Stores, Inc. (NYSE: FD). Fingerhut also owns Popular Club, a membership-based cataloger of general merchandise, Arizona Mail Order and Bedford Fair, catalog apparel companies, and Figi's, a food and gift catalog company. In addition, the company owns 40 percent of PC Flowers & Gifts, Inc. and equity positions in The Zone Network , FreeShop.com, Roxy.com and Hand Technologies, leading Internet retailers. Based in Minnetonka, Minn., the company and its subsidiaries employ approximately 10,000 people. Fingerhut can be found on the Internet at www.fingerhut.com, www.andysgarage.com, www.thehut.com, www.figis.com, www.pcflowers.com, www.mountainzone.com, www.skiresorts.com, www.freeshop.com, www.roxy.com, www.pcscentral.com, www.satellite.com, and handtech.com. |
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