Chicago-based multititle mailer Direct Marketing Services Inc. quietly resurrected the Montgomery Ward catalog in September 2004. The 116-page book has mailed six times since then, with the next drop ...

CHICAGO — Montgomery Ward & Co., which ran the nation’s first mail-order business, said yesterday that it plans a cautious re-entry into the catalog market it abandoned as unprofitable six ...

The original Montgomery Ward & Co., which started as a one-page catalog list in 1872, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy court protection at the end of 2000 and closed its remaining 250 stores in 2001.

By 1883, the Ward catalog was 240 pages with 10,000 items. Ward’s business plan was for rural people to order their desired items by mail, telegraph or telephone, then pick up their purchases at ...

The original king of mass retailing is dead. Struggling and lost among today’s giants such as Sears, Wal-Mart and The Gap, the venerable Montgomery Ward is liquidating and firing 37,000 emplo… ...

Montgomery Ward Inc., the country's first catalog retailer, said Thursday it will close up shop after 128 years in business and numerous attempts to reinvent itself.

HE WAS A MAN of a thousand faces, a thousand outfits, but just one pose. Dressed for work or leisure, it was always the same: stiff as a board, elbows out, one hand in a half-clench at his waist, t… ...

The venerable Montgomery Ward catalog , with origins dating back to 1872, will soon be back in the mail. It’s new owner — Monroe, WI-based multititle mailer Swiss Colony — plans to drop a new ...

Montgomery Ward Inc., the country's first catalog retailer, said Thursday it will close up shop after 128 years in business and numerous attempts to reinvent itself.