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Without new stores or any investment back into the business, Montgomery Ward declined in sales volume compared to Sears. Many have blamed the conservative decisions of Avery, who seemed not to understand the postwar years' changing economy. As new shopping centers were built after the war, Sears was
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After World War II, Sewell Avery believed the country would fall back into a recession or even a depression. He decided to not open any new stores, and did not even permit expenditure for paint to freshen the existing stores. His plan was to bank profits to preserve liquidity when the recession or
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At its height, the original
Montgomery Ward was one of the biggest retailers in the United States. After its demise, the familiarity of its brand meant its name, corporate logo, and advertising were considered valuable intangible assets. In 2004, catalog marketer Direct Marketing Services Inc.
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The new management team achieved the turnaround reducing the number of suppliers from 15,000 to 7,000 and the number of brands being carried dropped from 168 to 16. Ward's private brands were given 95 percent of the volume compared with 40 percent in 1960.
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Wards was very successful in its retail business. "Green awning" stores dotted hundreds of small towns across the country. Larger stores were built in the major cities. By the end of the 1930s, Montgomery Ward had become the country's largest retailer, and
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The burden of servicing the new stores fell to the tiny
Jefferson staff, who were overwhelmed by the increased store count, had no experience in dealing with some of the product lines they now carried, and were unfamiliar with buying for northern markets.
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In 1985, the company closed its catalog business after 113 years and began an aggressive policy of renovating its remaining stores. It restructured many of the store layouts in the downtown areas of larger cities and affluent neighborhoods into
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In April 1944, four months into a nationwide strike by the company's 12,000 workers, U.S. Army troops seized the company's
Chicago offices. The action was ordered due to Avery's refusal to settle the strike as requested by the
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Inc. June 1, 2010—kept
Montgomery Ward alive and relaunched the Wards website September 10, 2008, with new catalogs mailing in February 2009. A month before the catalog's launch, Swiss Colony President John Baumann told
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order to recognize the unions and institute the terms of a collective bargaining agreement. Eight months later, with
Montgomery Ward continuing to refuse to recognize the unions, President Roosevelt issued an
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December 28, 2000, after lower-than-expected sales during the Christmas season, the company announced it would cease operating, close its remaining 250 retail outlets, and lay off its 37,000 employees.
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By 1980, Mobil realized that the
Montgomery Ward stores were doing poorly in comparison to the Jefferson stores, and decided that high quality discount units, along the lines of Dayton Hudson Company's
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The results of these changes were lower handling costs and higher quality standards. Buying was centralized but store operations were decentralized, under a new territory system modeled after Sears.
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to lead
Montgomery Ward as president in its turnaround. Brooker brought with him a number of key new management people, including Edward Donnell, former manager of Sears' Los Angeles stores.
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perceived to have better locations than Wards. Nonetheless, for many years Wards was still the nation's third-largest department store chain.
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introduced his first general catalog. In 1900, Ward had total sales of $ 8.7 million, compared to $ 10 million for
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assets of the former Wards, including the "Montgomery Ward" and "Wards" trademarks, for an undisclosed amount.
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the retailer might also resurrect the original Montgomery Ward's Signature and Powr-Kraft
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in 1978, developed by the Authorship Resource, Inc., of
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Companies that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1997
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Montgomery Ward logo, used from May 1968 to July 1982.
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in 1978 and a Chicago historic landmark in May 2000.
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Pages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback
1353:"The History of a Forgotten Computer : Part 2"
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1791:– Dozens of Montgomery Ward Christmas catalogs
1142:"Montgomery Ward Seizure Stirs Wide Criticism"
1118:. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 30–31.
1093:. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 30–31.
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2863:Defunct online retailers of the United States
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224:: John Baumann, president of parent company
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1318:Talley, Jim; Herzog, Carl (July 12, 1985).
1284:"General merchandise retailing in America:"
604:In 1961, company president John Barr hired
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1017:"National Register Information System"
547:Progress Lighting the Way for Commerce
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1434:Rosenberg, Joyce M. (March 7, 1988).
1254:Emerson, Frank D. (January 1, 1956).
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1022:National Register of Historic Places
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373:Original Montgomery Ward (1872–2001)
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1506:. December 29, 2000. Archived from
1379:"It's the Montgomery, Not the Ward"
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1531:"Montgomery Wards closing stores"
1529:Swanson, Al (December 28, 2000).
1139:Horne, Louther (April 30, 1944).
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2186:GE Home & Business Solutions
2074:Australian Guarantee Corporation
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1498:"Montgomery Ward to close doors"
1403:Talley, Jim (November 1, 1985).
1308:, Retrieved on December 8, 2017.
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620:Container Corporation of America
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2094:Electric Bond and Share Company
1875:Montgomery Ward Company Complex
1595:Tierney, Jim (August 8, 2008).
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458:Expansion into retail outlets
320:Montgomery Wards Auto Express
16:Retailer in the United States
2848:Companies based in Wisconsin
2723:The General Electric Concert
2211:GE Measurement & Control
2146:GE Capital Aviation Services
2119:GE Automation & Controls
1597:"Swiss Colony Acquires DMSI"
1351:Powers, Matt (May 4, 2014).
757:Huntington Beach, California
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1879:Montgomery Ward Warehouse:
1068:"Montgomery Ward's History"
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2728:General Electric EdgeLab
2156:GE Capital Rail Services
1729:Latham, Frank B (1972).
1383:Pleasant Family Shopping
719:Bluefield, West Virginia
122: (20 years ago)
2843:Companies based in Iowa
2677:Welch Technology Centre
2667:Specialty Control Plant
2151:GE Capital IT Solutions
2038:(legal successor of GE)
1503:The Cincinnati Enquirer
1305:Encyclopedia Britannica
1195:"The Perils Of Success"
317:Montgomery Ward Catalog
2773:Diamond v. Chakrabarty
2089:Current, powered by GE
1974:Lechmere, Inc. v. NLRB
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2615:Douglas A. Warner III
2473:Reciprocating engines
2374:GE Honda Aero Engines
2176:GE Equipment Services
2161:GE Commercial Finance
1916:Aaron Montgomery Ward
1770:at Wikimedia Commons
1760:at Wikimedia Commons
1601:Multichannel Merchant
1219:Grant, James (1994).
1114:Ingham, John (1983).
1089:Ingham, John (1983).
1027:National Park Service
945:Chicago Park District
837:intellectual property
803:Chapter 11 bankruptcy
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357:business and later a
217:Aaron Montgomery Ward
2693:Carousel of Progress
2420:Penske Truck Leasing
2410:(1926–30, 1986–2004)
2104:GE Aerospace (1960s)
2029:Successor companies*
1569:Lincoln Journal Star
1264:Villanova University
1260:Villanova Law Review
759:, demolished in 2010
606:Robert Elton Brooker
559:Brattleboro, Vermont
394:Richard Warren Sears
64:Original incarnation
22:Montgomery Ward Inc.
2657:Research Laboratory
2303:Synchrony Financial
2226:GE Renewable Energy
2129:GE Aviation Systems
2065:Former subsidiaries
1446:on January 29, 2019
1300:"Mobil Corporation"
81:Current incarnation
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2263:GE Venture Capital
1472:The New York Times
1148:The New York Times
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826:As online retailer
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589:In 1955, investor
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2248:GE Transportation
2196:GE Infrastructure
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1900:Virginia Building
1766:Media related to
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1650:"Montgomery Ward"
1222:Money of the Mind
1199:AMERICAN HERITAGE
1029:. April 15, 2008.
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