Spiegel is an American brand founded in 1865. The company offered its first catalog to women across America in 1905. ... As of today, Spiegel is no longer offering catalogs, but we have some great alternatives for you to browse under similar catalogs below.

Who bought out Spiegel?

By the early 1970s, when annual sales reached about $400 million, Spiegel employed about 5,000 people in the Chicago area. In 1982, Spiegel was acquired by Otto-Versand, a German catalog company. Under the new ownership, Spiegel expanded.

Why did Spiegel catalog go out of business?

Yesterday, the Spiegel Group -- which owns the famous Spiegel catalog, Eddie Bauer and Newport News, another direct-mail clothing business -- filed for bankruptcy. The reason given was that the company had trusted too many people, and some did not pay their credit card bills.