Fingerhut Takes its Customer File off the Market

Fingerhut Cos. Inc. has suspended the rental of its customer file pending the sale of the company’s assets.

The file had 4.1 million active buyers at the time Fingerhut’s parent, Federated Department Stores Inc. announced in January that it would liquidate the catalog company. That number has likely dwindled by now as catalog operations were curtailed over the last several months.

“We have suspended the rental of the list until which time we can determine what will become of such assets,” said spokesperson Ben Saukko.

The file had been managed in-house.