MILWAUKEE -- Vacation Together, a La Macchia Enterprises company,
will close its nine Sears Vacations in-store retail locations in
Wisconsin, Minnesota and Pennsylvania effective Nov. 1. They were
first opened in January 2002.
According to Vacation Together president Kevin Froemming, the
decision was reached mutually by Vacation Together and Sears on
Sept. 30 after several weeks of discussion and analysis. Froemming
said the stores were closed because they were not generating their
projected revenue.
Seventeen jobs were eliminated by the closings. Froemming said
some of the laid-off employees will be reassigned within La Macchia
Enterprises.
Froemming said Vacation Together now will turn all its attention
to its core business, which he describes as "developing turnkey Web
site solutions for travel agents and marketing solutions for our
Vacation Together Network agencies."