Lillian Vernon's kitchen-table idea of selling monogrammed handbags and belts spawned one of America's best-known mail-order businesses. Peddling items like door knockers, welcome mats ...

Lillian Vernon, who created a sprawling catalog business that specialized in personalized gifts and ingenious gadgets and made her an American household name, died Monday in New York. She was 88 ...

Lillian Vernon, whose kitchen-table notion to sell monogrammed handbags and belts spawned one of America’s best-known mail-order catalogue businesses, died Dec. 14 in New York. She was 88. Her ...

Entrepreneur Lillian Vernon, founder of the eponymous mail order catalogue company, died in New York on Monday. She was 88. Vernon who started the company in 1951 as an add-on to her husband’s ...

Lillian Vernon, Enid Cutler, c. 1970 NPG, gift of David C. Hochberg and Fred P. Hochberg. Vernon prided herself in having intuition about what would sell to her audience, which originally was ...

1956 Lillian publishes her first 16-page, black-and-white catalog and mails it to 125,000 customers. The product line includes personalized combs, blazer buttons, collar pins, and cuff links. 1965 The ...

Catalog retailing legend Lillian Vernon is stepping aside after selling out to a group of private equity investors that includes the former music industry executive Strauss Zelnick for $60 million ...

Lillian Vernon, who got her start in 1951 selling purses and belts through a magazine ad and became a household name with 169 million copies of catalogs mailed each year, said that she plans to ...

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Lillian Vernon is downsizing in 2008 – both the company and the catalog – because of rising mailing costs. These moves follow other staff reductions made throughout 2007 in response to lost ...