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AmeriMark Direct was an American privately held mail order and direct marketing company founded in 1969 and based in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. It operated 10 catalogs and 7 websites [1] and specialized in ladies apparel, shoes, jewelry and accessories, perfumes, fragrances and cosmetics, diet and weight loss, personal care products, As ...
Mail order. Cover of a mail-order catalogue for scientific equipment. Mail order is the buying of goods or services by mail delivery. The buyer places an order for the desired products with the merchant through some remote methods such as: Sending an order form in the mail. Placing a telephone call.
Spiegel was an American direct marketing retailer founded in 1865 by Joseph Spiegel. Spiegel published a catalog, like its competitors Sears and Montgomery Ward, which advertised various brands of apparel, accessories, and footwear, as well as housewares, toys, tools, firearms, and electronics. Their company brands included Newport News, Shape ...
Lillian Vernon (company) Lillian Vernon Corporation is an American catalog merchant and online retailer that sells household, children's and fashion accessory products. Founded in 1951 by Lillian Vernon ( a/k/a Lillian Menasche), out of her Mount Vernon, New York, apartment; the business name is a combination of her first name and her hometown.
Montgomery Ward Catalog. Montgomery Wards Auto Express. Website. www .wards .com. 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.
Jake Gold's Old Curiosity Shop (aka Gold's Free Museum) was the first Indian curio business in Santa Fe [1] and was in existence between 1880 and 1905. It was said to have been established already in 1862 [2] but that year is just referring to when Jake came to Santa Fe to help his father. [3] The old adobe building known as the Old Curiosity ...
Johnson Smith Company (Johnson Smith & Co.) was a mail-order business established in 1914 by Alfred Johnson Smith that sold novelty items and gag gifts such as miniature cameras, invisible ink, x-ray goggles, whoopee cushions, fake vomit, and joy buzzers. Founded in Chicago, the company relocated to Racine, Wisconsin in 1923, [1] to Detroit in ...
Sportsman's Guide. Online and catalog retailer; liquidation store attached to headquarters. Sportsman's Guide is an online retailer of hunting and fishing gear, military surplus, ammunition, and outdoor sporting goods. It is based in South St. Paul, Minnesota, USA.
DAK Industries was founded in 1966 and during the 1980s became a mail-order electronics firm based in Canoga Park, Los Angeles, California. A gadget enthusiast, Kaplan founded his business while studying psychology at UCLA. On the side, he sold reel-to-reel tapes and installed stereos .
Mail-order bride. A mail-order bride is a woman who lists herself in catalogs and is selected by a man for marriage. In the twentieth century, the trend primarily involved women living in developing countries seeking men from more developed nations. Men who list themselves in such publications are referred to as "mail-order husbands", although ...