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The 'Quintessential
Entrepreneur' Dead at 88

OBITUARY

Dec 23, 2019 6:02 AM CST

The 'Quintessential Entrepreneur' Dead at 88

QVC founder Joseph Segel has died

(Newser) - Joseph Segel, the man who founded QVC to compete with the Home Shopping Network, has died at age 88. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports he died of congestive heart failure in Gladwyne, Pa. A statement from Qurate Retail Group, now the parent company of both QVC and HSN, says Segel was...

Matchmaker Settles With Exec Who Spent $150K on Bum Dates

Suit: Woman Spent $150K on
Matchmaker, Got Mr. Awfuls

Aug 10, 2017 8:42 AM CDT

Suit: Woman Spent $150K on Matchmaker, Got Mr. Awfuls

Including a guy who said past trauma made him lie uncontrollably

(Newser) - A retired corporate executive said in a lawsuit that she spent $150,000 on a matchmaking service that set her up with a string of highly incompatible suitors, including men who were married, mentally unstable, or felons, the AP reports. Darlene Daggett, former president for US commerce for the QVC...

Home Shopping
Rivals Are Merging

Jul 6, 2017 1:53 PM CDT

Home Shopping Rivals Are Merging

QVC buying HSN for $2.1B

(Newser) - The giants of the home shopping world are merging. QVC is acquiring HSN (which birthed home shopping as the Home Shopping Network in 1977) in an all-stock transaction valued at more than $2 billion, the Wall Street Journal reports. The longtime rivals are joining forces against a bigger rival: online...

QVC Confirms
It's Dumping
Paula Deen

so are sears, kmart

Jun 28, 2013 10:53 AM CDT

QVC Confirms It's Dumping Paula Deen

Sears and Kmart are, too

(Newser) - QVC is apparently finished "reviewing" its relationship with Paula Deen in the wake of her n-word controversy, and not surprisingly, that review did not end with good news for Deen. Deen revealed in a statement yesterday that she and QVC have "agreed that it's best for me...

QVC Looks to Dump
Paula Deen, Too

Jun 23, 2013 9:16 AM CDT

QVC Looks to Dump Paula Deen, Too

Channel has 'concerns' over racist flap

(Newser) - Lookin' for some of them Paula Deen pots and pans, y'all? Act now, as in now, because QVC has "concerns" about "the unfortunate Paula Deen situation," and has "no immediate plans to have her appear" on its vaunted airwaves—which she uses to hawk aforementioned...

Amazon Reigns Again
Among Online Stores

SURVEY SAYS

Dec 27, 2012 9:26 AM CST

Amazon Reigns Again Among Online Stores

JCPenney, Apple, and Dell all see drops in satisfaction

(Newser) - There's no question who's king of the online retail jungle. Amazon came out on top once again in ForeSee's annual Holiday E-Retail Satisfaction index, which measures how happy customers were with their shopping experience. It's the eight straight year Amazon has come out on top, CNET...

Why QVC Is Brilliant

May 15, 2010 1:57 PM CDT

Why QVC Is Brilliant

For starters, it makes viewers feel like friends

(Newser) - Nearly 25 years after its inception, the QVC network has become "one of the most effective retailing machines ever invented," writes self-described "closet fan" Megan McArdle at the Atlantic . The network didn't reinvent retail, but it's perfected many of its tenets, she explains. Among them:

Intimacy: QVC's

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Mizrahi Hits Cable TV,
Hawks Cheesecake

Jul 25, 2009 3:58 PM CDT

Mizrahi Hits Cable TV, Hawks Cheesecake

(Newser) - Fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi is back, designing for Liz Claiborne, hosting a Bravo show, and … hawking cheesecake? A new QVC series will follow Mizrahi in his daily life and record his colorful chatter as he sells everything from food to furniture, the Wall Street Journal reports. As for the...

Billy Mays, 'Hendrix'
of Pitchmen, Is Buried

Jul 3, 2009 1:15 PM CDT

Billy Mays, 'Hendrix' of Pitchmen, Is Buried

(Newser) - TV pitchman Billy Mays was laid to rest today in his hardscrabble hometown of McKees Rocks, Pa., the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports. Friends described his determined rise from the mill town to the malls of New Jersey to the hallowed heights of the Home Shopping Network. “If there was a...