Montgomery Ward & Co., which once ran the nation`s first mail-order business, said Tuesday it plans a cautious re-entry into the catalog market it abandoned as unprofitable six years ago. This time ...

Montgomery Ward, now an online U.S. retailer, plans to revive its iconic catalog in a brand-rebuilding gambit, the president of its new parent company said. The retailer, which once operated some 400 ...

The legend of Montgomery Ward lives on: Although the venerable mailer had closed its big book general merchandise catalog in 1985, filed for bankruptcy in 1997, and went out of business in 2000, a ...

Chicago — Montgomery Ward‘s 2007 Holiday Catalog began arriving in mailboxes in October, the second to be produced since Chicago-based Direct Marketing Services, Inc. (DMSI) acquired the brand in 2004 ...

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 ...

CHICAGO — There is life after death — at least in retail. Five years after Montgomery Ward went out of business, its brand name has been revived on the Internet and there’s even a 21st-century version ...

*Okay, laugh if you like, but the Montgomery Ward Catalog was once the killer "r-commerce" application for the original "Internet of Rails." The alleged shooter is a 57-year-old white male; according ...