Sears Holdings Corp. said Tuesday that Vice Chairman Alan Lacy, who led Sears, Roebuck & Co. through the purchase of Lands’ End, the sale of its credit card business and the chain’s sale to ...

One hundred six years ago, Sears, Roebuck and Co. was its era’s version of a hot tech company. Like Facebook, Apple or Amazon, it wasn’t just a corporation — it was a revolution.

The final untangling of Sears, Roebuck and Co., the firm that Gen. Robert E. Wood and Edward Telling built into a multibillion-dollar conglomerate over six decades, was announced Thursday. Sears ...

The firm of Sears, Roebuck and Company was incorporated in 1893. Roebuck asked Sears to buy him out in 1895, but Sears convinced him to stay in charge of a division handling phonographs, jewelry ...

Sears, Roebuck and Co., has used expertise gained by its purchase of Lands' End Inc. to launch on Monday its venture into selling home furnishings and apparel online. IE 11 is not supported.

Sears, Roebuck and Co. sold between 70,000 and 75,000 mail-order homes from 1908 to 1940 under their Modern Homes program. The company boasted 447 different styles from towering multi-story ...

It would be hard to imagine a company as much a part of the American scene as Sears Roebuck & Company. At age 100 it truly has been a part of the cultural history of the nation. To once isolated ...

When Sears, Roebuck and Co. filed for bankruptcy last week, the news coverage was nostalgic and back-patting, lamenting the end of “the original everything store” and highlighting the retail ...

Cover of a Sears Roebuck & Co. Consumer’s Guide in 1900. The catalog also shifted the living patterns in the country. Between 1880 and 1900 the majority of Americans were living on farms or in ...

From 1908 to 1940, customers could pick out their own ready-to-assemble home kit from a Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalog and have the materials shipped directly to them, primarily by rail.

Sears, Roebuck and Co. is plotting a major systems re-engineering initiative designed to address the company’s fragmented technology approach, according to CEO Alan Lacy. The IT effort is being ...