Industry Eye: Catalogers' Updates and People on the Move

Office Depot: The multichannel merchant of office supplies, furniture and electronics will be shuttering 112 stores and six distribution facilities, resulting in the elimination of 2,200 jobs.

Montgomery Ward: The one-time big-box department store retailer and now an online retailer of furniture, home décor and collectibles, plans to bring back its iconic catalog. The first catalogs will hit consumers’ mailboxes in February, and Ward plans to mail three or four editions this year. The catalog will be aimed at Ward’s older customers. Ward was bought last August by multititle cataloger The Swiss Colony.