Thank you for being a part of the Wards History!
Thank YOU for Being a Part of the Wards History!
u003cp class=u0022p1u0022u003eCustomers like you made it an AMAZING 150 years and it’s because of you we celebrate! We hope you enjoy this look back at some of the highlights from the past 150 years.u003c/pu003e
Did You Know…
u003cp class=u0022p1u0022u003eThat Montgomery Ward was America’s first mail-order catalog business? It was launched in 1872 with a single-sheet catalog offering 163 items!u003c/pu003e
Did You Know…
u003cp class=u0022p1u0022u003eThat 1939 Montgomery Ward asked one of its catalog copywriters to write a children’s book for the holiday season and that’s how Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was born?u003c/pu003e
Did You Know…
u003cp class=u0022p1u0022u003eThat in the early 1900s Montgomery Ward sold more than 32,000 houses through their mail order business? Some of those houses are still standing today!u003c/pu003e
Did You Know…
u003cp class=u0022p1u0022u003eThat in the 1920s Montgomery Ward had over 500 retail stores across the country with its flagship store located on Michigan Avenue in Chicago?u003c/pu003e
Did You Know…
u003cp class=u0022p1u0022u003eBack in the early 1900s Montgomery Ward hired couriers, nicknamed “Pickers,” who would roller skate around the Wards offices delivering messages and packages?u003c/pu003e
Did You Know…
u003cp class=u0022p1u0022u003eThat in the mid-1950s Montgomery Ward sold animals via mail order? Customers could browse the catalog pages and buy cats, dogs or even ponies!u003cspan class=u0022Apple-converted-spaceu0022u003e u003c/spanu003eu003c/pu003e
Did You Know…
u003cp class=u0022p1u0022u003eThat 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!u003c/pu003e
Thank YOU for Being a Part of the Wards History!
u003cp class=u0022p1u0022u003eCustomers like you made it an AMAZING 150 years and it’s because of you we celebrate! We hope you enjoy this look back at some of the highlights from the past 150 years.u003c/pu003e
Did You Know…
u003cp class=u0022p1u0022u003eThat Montgomery Ward was America’s first mail-order catalog business? It was launched in 1872 with a single-sheet catalog offering 163 items!u003c/pu003e
Did You Know…
u003cp class=u0022p1u0022u003eThat 1939 Montgomery Ward asked one of its catalog copywriters to write a children’s book for the holiday season and that’s how Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was born?u003c/pu003e
Did You Know…
u003cp class=u0022p1u0022u003eThat in the early 1900s Montgomery Ward sold more than 32,000 houses through their mail order business? Some of those houses are still standing today!u003c/pu003e
Did You Know…
u003cp class=u0022p1u0022u003eThat in the 1920s Montgomery Ward had over 500 retail stores across the country with its flagship store located on Michigan Avenue in Chicago?u003c/pu003e
Did You Know…
u003cp class=u0022p1u0022u003eBack in the early 1900s Montgomery Ward hired couriers, nicknamed “Pickers,” who would roller skate around the Wards offices delivering messages and packages?u003c/pu003e
Did You Know…
u003cp class=u0022p1u0022u003eThat in the mid-1950s Montgomery Ward sold animals via mail order? Customers could browse the catalog pages and buy cats, dogs or even ponies!u003cspan class=u0022Apple-converted-spaceu0022u003e u003c/spanu003eu003c/pu003e
Did You Know…
u003cp class=u0022p1u0022u003eThat 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!u003c/pu003e
