Aaron Montgomery Ward (February 17, 1844 - December 7, 1913) was an American businessman notable for the invention of mail order. The mail-order industry was started by Aaron Montgomery Ward in 1872 in Chicago. Ward, a young traveling salesman of dry goods, was concerned over the plight of many rural Midwest Americans who he thought were being overcharged and under-served by many of the small town retailers on whom they had to rely for their general merchandise.

Michael Otto is the head of Otto Group, the world's largest mail order company, with $24 billion in sales in fiscal year 2003. Thanks to a 30% rise in Internet sales last year, Otto also maintains its position as the Web's second-biggest retailer, behind Amazon.com. They were the former owners of Spiegel, Inc., (the parent company of Eddie Bauer and former owners of Spiegel catalog), which filed for bankruptcy on March 17, 2003.

Robin Pilcher (born 10 August 1950) is a British author, the eldest son of author Rosamunde Pilcher. Robin Pilcher has been a cameraman, a songwriter, and a farmer, co-managed a mail order business, and has had numerous other jobs. He lives with his wife and children near Dundee, Scotland, and in the Sierra de Aracena mountain area of Andalusia, Spain, where he plans to establish a writing institute supported by the Pilcher Foundation of Creative Writing.

Daryl A. Katz is chairman and chief executive officer of The Katz Group, one of North America's leading drug store operators with over 1,800 stores and owns and operates Canada's only national mail order pharmacy business, Meditrust Pharmacy Inc., one of Canada's largest institutional pharmacy operations. Katz is a former lawyer. He currently resides in Edmonton, Alberta.

Pryce Pryce-Jones (October 16 1834 - 1920) was one of the first to succeed in the mail order business. He was born in Newtown, Montgomeryshire, Wales. He was apprenticed to a local draper, John Davies, and took over Davies's business in 1856. In the same year he married Eleanor Rowley Morris of Newtown. Pryce-Jones started with his own little shop selling drapery just off Broad Street. Renamed the Royal Welsh Warehouse, the business flourished.

Karl Amson Joel was a German-Jewish textile merchant and manufacturer. He was the grandfather of conductor Alexander Joel and musician Billy Joel. Joel born in Colmberg as the son of a textile merchant. In 1928 he founded a mail order selling company for textiles and clothes in Nuremberg. The following year he also started manufacturing. Joel's company soon became one of the leading mail order sellers in Germany (along with Quelle or Schöpflin).

John Stayton Simonton Jr. was a circuit designer, author of electronics articles, and founder of PAiA Electronics, a manufacturer of analog synthesizer kits. Simonton was born in Honolulu yet grew up in New Orleans. In 1965 he graduated from Louisiana Tech University with degrees in electrical engineering and psychology. In 1967 he began working on the first computerized jet engine test facility in Oklahoma at the Tinker Air Force Base.

Bruce F. Elving is an author and DXer from Duluth, Minnesota. He is the author of the "FM Atlas", a directory of FM radio stations and translators throughout the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The "FM Atlas" has been published approximately every 18 months since 1972, and is currently in its 20th edition. Elving also publishes "FM Media", a monthly set of updates for the "FM Atlas", …

James Mustich, Jr. was founder and chief writer of the now-defunct mail order book catalogue A Common Reader.

John George Graves was a successful English entrepreneur and public benefactor. He became Sheffield's Lord Mayor and an Alderman in 1926 and he was given Freedom of the City in 1929. He was born in Lincolnshire in 1866 and died in 1945, after having settled in Sheffield. Graves moved to Sheffield to become an apprentice watchmaker. He set up one of Britain's first mail order businesses, selling first watches and then a wide range of goods.

Lawrence G. "Larry" Chait was an American advertising executive who was a pioneer in mail order and direct marketing. He was chairman of Lawrence G. Chait & Co., Inc. He was President of the Direct Marketing Club of New York. His political activities landed him on the master list of Nixon political opponents.

Samuel Roger Horchow (born July 3, 1928, in Cincinnati, Ohio) is a catalog entrepreneur and Broadway producer. In 1971, Horchow started The Horchow Collection, the first luxury mail-order catalog that was not preceded by a brick-and-mortar presence. He sold the Horchow Collection to Neiman Marcus in 1988. In 1992, he produced his first Broadway show, "Crazy for You", a George Gershwin musical, for which he won the Tony Award for Best Musical.

Harold Nathan Braunhut aka Harold von Braunhut (31 March 1926 - 28 November 2003) was an American mail-order marketer most famous as the creator and seller of Amazing Sea-Monkeys. He was also an inventor, and promoted extreme right-wing beliefs. Harold von Braunhut was born in Memphis, Tennessee on 31 March 1926. Von Braunhut grew up in New York City and resided there until the 1980s when he moved to Maryland.

Pamela Kempthorne is a British comedy actress. She noticeably played both lead characters (a vampire mother and mortal daughter) in the horror comedy film The Vampires of Bloody Island. She has also appeared in all the "Harry Potter" films. She has guested in British sit-coms and comedy panel shows including "Never Mind The Buzzcocks", "Nighty Night" and "Titty Bang Bang".

Stanley "Mouse" Miller (1940-present) is an American artist best known for his psychedelic art designs for 1960s rock concert posters, as well as Grateful Dead album cover art. Along with artists Rick Griffin, Alton Kelley, Victor Moscoso, and Wes Wilson, Mouse founded the Berkeley Bonaparte distribution agency in order to produce and sell psychedelic poster art. Mouse and Kelley also worked together from 1971 as lead artists of Mouse Studios and the Monster Company, …

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