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Bluestem Brands
You might say this company lets your fingers do the shopping. Bluestem Brands (formerly named Fingerhut Direct Marketing) offers an array of private-label and brand-name merchandise, including apparel, appliances, electronics, furniture, health and beauty products, jewelry, kitchenware, luggage, sporting goods, tools, and toys through its Fingerhut catalog and e-commerce site and via the Gettington.com site. The company also offers credit in partnership with MetaBank and WebBank. Bluestem's core demographic includes low- and middle-income Americans. The company announced...More
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From quiet beginnings, Bluestem Brands has evolved into a 900-employee retail national player, headquartered in Eden Prairie, MN. We're an innovative, exciting company with three distinctive brands under one roof: Fingerhut®, Gettington.com® and PayCheck Direct?. As one of the country’s largest direct marketers, we send millions of catalogs each year, and offer more than 30,000 products and hundreds of name brands on our three consumer websites.
Our History
Fingerhut is our most established brand, and was started as an entrepreneurial enterprise in 1948. Fingerhut is now a well-recognized national brand, serving millions of customers who are on a budget via direct marketing and fingerhut.com.
Gettington.com launched in 2009 in the online space, and features name brands with a choice of payment options.
PayCheck Direct is the latest addition to the Bluestem Brands family, launching in 2011. This employee purchase plan allows participating employees to buy larger ticket items via a co-branded employer website and pay interest-free, by payroll deduction.
Our Mission
The mission of Bluestem Brands is to improve our customers' lives by providing the merchandise they need with the flexibility of paying over time.
Fun Facts
- We've had more than 30 million visitors to our websites in the past 12 months
- We are listed in the Top 100 Online Retailers nationally
- Gettington.com doubled its sales plan year-over-year, going from $0 to >$30M in two years!
- We offer more than 30,000 products, including hundreds of brand names like Sony, Dyson, KitchenAid, Toshiba, Columbia, and Nautica
- We develop private product brands in Kitchen, Bed & Bath, Fashion, Hardware, and Sporting Goods
- We earned the "Top Level" Governor's Safety Award in 2010 and 2011 (this makes seven years in a row)
- We ship more than four million packages annually
- We have a 1.2 million-square-foot state-of-the-art fulfillment and distribution center in St. Cloud, MN
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Bluestem Brands Ratings & Reviews Posted by employees
Employees are “Very Satisfied” 15 ratings
100% of the CEO 2 ratings
Steve Nave
President and CEO
“Great place to chart your own course and create your own success”
Current Manager of People in Eden Prairie, MN
Pros: High level of empowerment from senior leadership. It's nice to find an environment where you can use and build your skills and even venture into new areas. People work hard but the environment is collaborative, not competitive. People are smart and… – Full Review /Reviews/Employee-Review-Bluestem-Brands-RVW2563283.htm
Bluestem Brands Salaries Posted by employees
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Bluestem Brands Interview Questions & Reviews Posted by candidates
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Eden Prairie, MN – Reviewed 5 weeks ago
Interview Details – Several sets of interviews that included human resources, peers, managers and higher level leadership. I was asked many questions about my experience, how I handled situations in my previous employment and how I would handle them here. We talked at length about the culture here. We went through my… – Full Interview
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I was asked about a time when I had to deliver bad news to someone, and how I handled it. That kind of threw me.
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