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 ...

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 ...

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 "Stark, actually" featurettes are about people, places and things in Stark County. Prior examples have included everything from a thoroughbred horse farm to the annual spawning run of white bass, ...

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 ...

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 years ago.

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 ...

I was 9 years old in 1958. It was different then: 9-year-old girls still had little girl thoughts, little girl interests, and little girl wishes. It was a simpler time, as they say. But I digress; ...

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 employees.