DISTRESSED DAILY: Party City Goes Shipping for Halloween Goods

Party City is going to extremes to get spooky supplies on shelves in time for Halloween.

Faced with widespread supply chain disruptions -- and working on a tighter timeline than peers fretting Thanksgiving and Christmas -- Party City executives said at a conference last month they’ve taken to chartering their own freight ships to get goods from China onto shelves before it’s too late.

“We have gotten much more creative in playing how we get goods into the U.S.,” Chief Financial Officer Todd Vogensen at the Goldman Sachs Global Retailing Conference. He said the company has been “looking ...