Kate Spade & Company ( KATE ) made a host of announcements yesterday. These include its plans to discontinue Kate Spade Saturday as a standalone business, introducing a fresh business model for its Jack Spade business, formation of a joint venture (“JV”) with Walton Brown, announcement of preliminary results for full-year 2014 and initiation of an overall guidance for 2015. Starting with Kate Spade Saturday, the company plans to absorb all successful elements of this business into its kate spade new york brand, simultaneously discontinuing the former’s operations as a stand-alone business […]