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Lands' End Headquarters

Overview

Lands' End is a leading international retailer of clothes for the family and products for the home. The company offers products through catalogs, landsend.com, nearly 300 Lands' End Shops at Sears and Inlet Stores. Lands' End is headquartered in Dodgeville, Wisconsin, 45 miles west of Madison. The company was founded in Chicago in 1963. Lands' End is a proud member of Sears Holdings Corporation.

Lands' End International

Lands' End ships to dozens of countries around the world. Customers in Germany, Japan, United Kingdom, Sweden, France and Austria can shop Lands' End via unique web sites that use local language and currency.

Customers in Germany, Japan and the United Kingdom can also shop at Lands' End Inlets and via unique catalogs. Lands' End offers customers in these countries a selection of popular U.S. styles as well as unique looks that appeal to customers in these markets.

Canadian customers can shop Lands' End online at www.landsend.canada (prices in US dollars) and by calling 800-800-5800.

Lands' End School

Lands' End offers uniforms and school-appropriate clothing, designed to meet dress-code requirements, in sizes for children and adults, including Spiritwear, embroidered with logos for sports and school clubs. Lands' End offers its school uniform apparel all year and includes slim, plus and husky sizing. Lands' End School products offer the same quality, value and guarantee the company is known for. To help the schools it works with fund special projects, the company offers a "preferred school" program that gives participating schools three percent cash back on net sales of school uniforms.

Lands' End Business Outfitters

Lands' End Business Outfitters is a trusted brand partner for companies of all sizes, offering businesses a better choice through quality, high-value apparel and promotional products. From single entrepreneurs to members of the Fortune 500®, Lands' End Business Outfitters offers tailored and business casual apparel for office wear, trade shows, company events and more. Lands' End Business Outfitters also offers an extensive variety of promotional products that enhance a company's image and message.

Lands' End History

1963	Former advertising copywriter and avid sailor Gary C. Comer founds Lands' End, Inc. in Chicago, Ill. The company sells sailboat hardware and equipment by catalog.
1975	Lands’ End launches its first full-color catalog featuring 30 pages of sailing gear and two pages of clothing.
1977	Lands’ End’s moves focus toward clothing as 13 of 40 catalog pages feature clothes. Lands’ End introduces Square Rigger® soft luggage.
1978	Lands’ End moves its warehouse and phone operations to Dodgeville, Wis., a rural community located 40 miles southwest of Madison, Wis. The company launches its toll-free 800 number and sells its first buttondown oxford shirt.
1980	Lands’ End expands the toll-free phone service to 24 hours a day. The first Lands' End outlet store opens in Chicago.
1986	Lands' End goes public.
1990	Lands’ End launches its Kids' and Home catalogs.
1991	Lands' End opens operations in the United Kingdom.
1993	Lands' End opens a warehouse and phone center in United Kingdom. Lands' End Business Outfitters launches.
1994	Lands' End opens operations in Japan.
1995	Landsend.com debuts on the Internet.
1996	Lands' End introduces classics for men in big and tall sizes. Lands' End establishes operations in Germany. The first Lands' End Inlet store opens in Richfield, Minn.
1997	Lands' End mails its first Kids' School Uniform catalog.
1998	Landsend.com introduces Your Personal Model™, a tool that allows customers to build 3-D models of themselves.
1999	Lands' End Live™ debuts online. Lands' End Home introduces furniture. Lands' End extends its Internet presence globally by launching e-commerce sites in the UK, Germany and Japan.
2001	Landsend.com introduces Lands' End Custom™, an interactive tool that enables customers to create their very own custom pairs of pants in the comfort of their own homes.
2002	Lands' End becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of Sears. Lands' End introduces "best sellers” into select Sears full-line stores. Lands' End introduces the Women Plus line, devoted to women’s sizes 1X-3X or 18W-26W.
2003	Lands' End “best-sellers” are available in all 870 Sears full-line stores.
2005	Lands' End becomes a proud member of Sears Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ: SHLD) in a merger between Sears and Kmart. The "store-within-a-store" concept, Lands’ End Shops at Sears, is introduced into select Sears locations.
2006	The Lands' End Shops at Sears can now be found in over 100 full-line Sears stores, accounting for more than one million square feet of retail space.
2007	Lands’ End introduces expanded 20,000 square-foot shops in select Sears locations, offering the largest-ever assortment of products.
2009	Lands’ End opens operations in France and Austria. Lands’ End Shops at Sears locations now total 293. The Lands’ End Canvas™ collection launches for men and women. The first Lands’ End Canvas store opens on State Street in Madison, Wis.
2010	Lands' End expands the Lands' End Canvas Shops at Sears to 24 locations nationwide. Lands' End completes its state-of-the-art extension to its distribution center in the United Kingdom and opens operations in Sweden. The company becomes the first apparel retailer to launch Lands' End Live™ video chat nationwide, bringing the personal shopping experience home to the customer.