Daily Gazette To Close On Sale Of Two Newspapers in January (mediapost.com)

The average piece of Direct Mail is looked at for 108 seconds across the course of a month, while the average Door Drop is viewed for 46 seconds. The mail channel is more attention efficient than a host of other media platforms, resulting in the recommendation that it is a “must-have” channel on attention-based media plans. JICMAIL (The Joint Industry Currency for Mail) has today revealed the findings from a major year-long study – The Time We Spend With Mail. This research into consumer attention with mail has involved collaboration with multiple measurement partners including Kantar, PwC and Lifestream. The year-long measurement program has seen JICMAIL roll out full attention measurement across its entire panel of 1,000 households per month (capturing time-spent metrics for Business Mail, Direct Mail, Door Drops and Partially Addressed Mail). At the same time, the AI-driven video analytics company Lifestream has provided directly observed mail attention data with which to validate the panel findings, while PwC has scrutinised the mail efficiency calculations that JICMAIL has generated to compare the delivery of time spent to other media channels.

This year, Amazon will celebrate its third year fulfilling customer orders out of Illinois and surpassing the milestone of 10,000 full-time employees in the state with job opportunities for people with all types of experience, education and skill levels—from human resources, engineers and facilities technicians, to those seeking entry-level positions and on-the-job training. We couldn’t be prouder to be part of the Illinois family. Our team in the Land of Lincoln has been instrumental in providing outstanding customer experiences, raising the bar on our operational excellence, and continuing to innovate on behalf of the customer. We feel fortunate to have been able to create more than 10,000 jobs in just three years and gratified by the amazing support we’ve received from the community,” said Sanjay Shah, Amazon’s Vice President of North America Customer Fulfillment. Click Read More below for additional information.

• Third quarter net earnings were $114 million and earnings before interest and taxes ("EBIT") were $208 million, or 5.9 percent of net sales, compared with net loss of $10 million and EBIT of $55 million, or 1.6 percent of net sales, during the same period in fiscal 2016. ? Retail EBIT increased $137 million compared with the same quarter last year, primarily reflecting a goodwill impairment charge of $197 million in 2016. * Credit EBIT increased $16 million through the strategic partnership with TD Bank, primarily due to credit card revenues growth of 25 percent. • Total Company net sales of $3.5 billion for the third quarter increased 2.0 percent compared with the same period in fiscal 2016. Total Company comparable sales for the third quarter decreased 0.9 percent compared with the same quarter last year. ? In the Nordstrom brand, including U.S. and Canada full-line stores and Nordstrom.com, net sales when combined with Trunk Club, decreased 1.2 percent and comparable sales decreased 1.9 percent. The top-ranking merchandise categories were Men's Apparel and Kids' Apparel. The West was the top-ranking U.S. geographic region. Click Read More below for additional information.