In , the company fleshed out its North American presence and increased its commitment to Latin artists and customers by establishing Columbia House Mexico. The following year, Columbia House launched its web site, giving its customers the opportunity to peruse music and video catalogs and to purchase their selections online. In , after establishing its online presence, Columbia House formed its DVD club, which proved to be a vital contributor to the company revenue volume, helping, along with other video sales, to account for approximately half of the company revenues.
As Columbia House prepared to exit the s, it was beginning to suffer from the advances made by other retailers. Nationwide, record club sales declined during much of the s, reaching their peak in when clubs of Columbia House's ilk accounted for By , record clubs accounted for less than 8 percent of all CD sales , as the success of Internet-based retailers such as Amazon.
To combat the causes of its flagging business, the company sought a partnership with one of the pioneers of online music sales, CDNow. The two companies agreed to merge in mid, recruiting a new chief executive officer, Scott Flanders, to lead the new company. An initial public offering of Columbia House was included as part of the merger plan, but in March the deal collapsed. In the wake of the scuttled merger agreement, Flanders, who had cofounded an e-commerce company, Telstreet.
Flanders responded by initiating a restructuring program in that produced positive cash flow by the end of In , he closed the company's distribution center in Colorado City, Colorado, which was operating at 60 percent of the level of Flanders succeeded in restoring some of Columbia House's luster.
Despite the strides achieved, there was speculation that Sony and Time Warner were looking to sell Columbia House, a theory that became reality in As Columbia House prepared for its 50th anniversary, another potential merger grabbed the headlines.
In late , rumors were circulating that Columbia House might merge with Blockbuster, Inc. The proposed merger promised to combine the largest video rental chain in the United States with the largest direct marketer of music and videos in the United States, joining Blockbuster's 48 million members with Columbia House's more than eight million members.
Blockbuster dominated the movie rental business, controlling 40 percent of the U. The company announced that it intended to increase its market share to 9 percent by Columbia House, with between 7 percent and 8 percent of the DVD retail sales market, offered Blockbuster an expedient way to surpass its goal. As Columbia House entered the mids, speculation about its union with Blockbuster dominated news about the company, offering, in some analysts' minds, a new way for the company to approach its business in the future.
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