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This was the world's first mail order business, an idea which would change the nature of retail in the coming century. The further expansion of the railways in the years that followed allowed Pryce Jones to greatly expand his customer base and his business grew rapidly.
He supplied his products to an impressive variety of famous clientele, including Florence Nightingale and Queen Victoria , the Princess of Wales and royal households across Europe. He also began exporting drapery to the US and British colonies. One of his most popular products was the Euklisia Rug , [6] the forerunner of the modern sleeping bag, which Pryce-Jones exported around the world, at one point landing a contract with the Russian Army for 60, rugs. By , he had more than , customers and his success was rewarded in with a knighthood.
The cover of the first Eaton's catalog , published in The Eaton's catalog would continue to be published until In , Aaron Montgomery Ward of Chicago produced a mail-order catalogue for his Montgomery Ward mail order business. By buying goods and then reselling them directly to customers, Aaron Montgomery Ward was consequently removing the middlemen at the general store and to the benefit of the customer, lowering the prices drastically.
His first catalogue was a single sheet of paper with a price list, 8 by 12 inches, showing the merchandise for sale and ordering instructions. Montgomery Ward identified a market of merchant-wary farmers in the Midwest. Within two decades, his single-page list of products grew into a page illustrated book selling over 20, items. From about to , Ward sold prefabricated kit houses , called Wardway Homes, by mail order.
Hammacher Schlemmer is the earliest still surviving mail-order business, established by Alfred Hammacher in New York City in Offering mechanic's tools and builder's hardware, its first catalogue was published in Eaton Co. Limited was founded in in Toronto by Timothy Eaton, an Irish immigrant.
The first Eaton's catalogue was a page booklet issued in As Eaton's grew, so did the catalogue. By , Eaton's operated mail order warehouses in Winnipeg, Toronto and Moncton to serve its catalogue customers. Catalogue order offices were also established throughout the country, with the first opening in Oakville in Sears, Roebuck and Company catalog , Richard Warren Sears started a business selling watches through mail order catalogs in Redwood Falls, Minnesota in By , the Sears catalog had grown to pages, featuring sewing machines , bicycles , sporting goods , automobiles produced from — by Lincoln Motor Car Works of Chicago, not related to the current Ford Motor Company brand of the same name [15] and a host of other new items.
Organizing the company so it could handle orders on an economical and efficient basis, Chicago clothing manufacturer Julius Rosenwald became a part-owner in By the following year, dolls , refrigerators , stoves and groceries had been added to the catalog.
Sears, Roebuck and Co. By , the company was producing a page catalog with the largest variety of items that anybody at the time could have imagined. Two years later they exceeded , dollars. In , Sears, Roebuck and Co. From to , Sears also sold kit houses by mail order, selling 70, to 75, such homes, many of which are still lived in today.
The Outlook , American magazine advertisement from offering mail delivery of fish and seafood. By creating a direct marketing industry through the mail order catalogue, Pryce Pryce-Jones and Aaron Montgomery Ward enabled the creation of a powerful global network that came to include everything from mail order, to telemarketing and social media.
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