Members of Nordstrom's founding family have offered $8 billion to take it private and help it adapt to the "challenging retail landscape."
Jewelry company Betteridge had a dysfunctional finance operation and declining business results, but its owner had his sights on an ambitious goal.
Deutsche Bank, Callaway Golf, Nordstrom, Essilor, CTG, Norfolk Southern, Marco Technologies, CMS Energy, Shake Shack, Hawkins
Sherwin-Williams, Nordstrom, Aerojet Rocketdyne, Allete, Buffalo Wild Wings, Calibre Systems, Penn National Gaming, Inteliquent, Tronox
The acquisition of a stake in the maker of Dsco software is aimed at boosting the speed of online order delivery while keeping costs down.
Thanks to tactical changes, the retailing giant is growing revenues in a very competitive environment.
The retailer's luxury stores had a particularly poor quarter, driving profits down 60% to 26 cents a share on $3.25 billion in revenue.
'It's just a traffic thing,' said one of the retailer's executives.
Two-to-three week delays in moving cargo containers out of the port could cause problems for major retailers that are stocking up for the holidays.
Just after passing the $1 billion revenue mark for the first time, Crocs is plotting its encore. CFO Jeff Lasher tells how the company is driving and managing its rapid growth.
