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Montgomery Ward is the name of two successive U.S. retail corporations. The original Montgomery Ward & Co. was a world-pioneering mail-order business and later a leading department store chain that operated between 1872 and 2001.
Originally founded in 1872 as a mail order catalog company, Montgomery Ward revolutionized shopping by delivering a vast array of products right to customers’ doors. Over the decades, we’ve continued to evolve with our customers’ needs, transforming into the beloved department store and online retailer we are today.
That Montgomery Ward was the first catalog to offer the “satisfaction guaranteed or your money back” promise? What is today considered standard in the catalog industry, was pioneered by Wards!
May 24, 2021 · Aaron Montgomery Ward worked hard as a young teenager to help support his family. Learning many trades and working as a traveling salesman, he realized the f...
Montgomery Ward (born Feb. 17, 1844, Chatham, N.J., U.S.—died Dec. 7, 1913, Highland Park, Ill.) was a U.S. merchant who introduced the mail-order method of selling general merchandise and who founded the great mail-order house of Montgomery Ward & Company, Inc.
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SICs: 5311 Department Stores; 5722 Household Appliance Stores. Company History: Montgomery Ward & Co., Incorporated is a national retailer with more than 400 stores in 43 states. It is the ninth-largest U.S. retailer and the largest privately held retailer in the country.
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Aaron Montgomery Ward was a traveling salesman who noticed that rural residents desired goods not available in their hometowns. So he began a mail-order business in Chicago and sent out his first single-sheet price list in August 1872.
