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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, more than 275 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 and as of October 2009, France, 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.

Lands' End has a growing presence in Canada. Canadian customers can shop Lands' End at 30 Lands' End Shops within Sears Canada, at a Canadian Lands' End website www.landsend.ca and 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	Lands' End, Inc. founded in Chicago, Illinois, by Gary C. Comer, a former advertising copywriter and avid sailor. The company sold sailboat hardware and equipment by catalog.
1975	First full-color catalog with 30 pages of sailing gear and two pages of clothing.
1977	Focus moves toward clothing as 13 of 40 pages feature clothes. Square Rigger® soft luggage is introduced.
1978	Warehouse and phone operations are moved to Dodgeville, WI, a rural community located 40 miles southwest of Madison, WI. Toll-free 800 number is launched and first buttondown oxford shirt is sold.
1980	Toll-free phone is expanded to 24 hours a day. The first Lands' End outlet store is opened in Chicago.
1986	Lands' End goes public.
1990	Kids' and Home catalogs are launched.
1991	Lands' End opens operations in the United Kingdom.
1993	Lands' End opens warehouse and phone center in United Kingdom. Lands' End Business Outfitters launches.
1994	Lands' End opens operations in Japan.
1995	Landsend.com opens on the Internet.
1996	Lands' End introduces classics for men in big and tall sizes. Lands' End opens operations in Germany. First Lands' End Inlet opens in Richfield, MN.
1997	First Lands' End Kids' School Uniform catalog mailed.
1998	Landsend.com site 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, a tool that enables customers to create their very own custom pairs of pants online in the comfort of their own homes.
2002	Lands' End becomes wholly-owned subsidiary of Sears. Lands' End "best sellers" introduced into select Sears Full-line stores. Lands' End introduces Lands' End Women Plus, devoted to women sizing 1X-3X, or 18W-26W.
2003	Introduction of Lands' End best-sellers 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. In 2005, Lands' End also introduces the "store-within-a-store" concept at select Lands' End Shops at Sears.
2007	Lands' End introduces an expanded 20,000 foot space in Burlington and Paramus, offering the largest-ever assortment of Lands' End products.
2009	Lands' End has a "store-within-a-store" shop in more than 275 Sears.