Lillian Vernon’s Catalog Empire Got Its Start at a Kitchen Table. A keen sense of what shoppers wanted made her eponymous company the first woman-owned business on the American Stock Exchange.

Lillian Vernon, whose kitchen-table notion to sell monogrammed handbags and belts spawned one of America’s best-known mail-order catalog businesses, has died. She was 88. She died Monday in N… ...

1990 Lillian Vernon named 1990 Catalog of the Year at the Annual Catalog Conference. • Lilly’s Kids catalog launched. 1992 Christmas Memories catalog debuts. 1993 Lillian Vernon’s corporate ...

Lillian Vernon Corp., which has performed poorly in recent years, is being sold to Ripplewood Holdings, a Manhattan investment firm, for $60.5 million, the two parties said Wednesday.

Nearly two months after the personalized gifts merchant was acquired by Current USA, the Lillian Vernon catalog is back in the mail. As part of a “soft launch,” the new owner mailed about 600,000 ...

Lillian Vernon, who created mail-order catalog business, dies at 88 December 14, 2015 More than 9 years ago Lillian Vernon poses at her catalog headquarters in New Rochelle, N.Y., on April 30,1998.

NEW YORK — 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 ...

Lillian Vernon, whose kitchen-table notion to sell monogrammed handbags and belts spawned one of America’s best-known mail-order catalog businesses, has died. She was 88.

The woman behind one of the most successful mail-order catalogs has died. Lillian Vernon, 88, founded her company in 1951 out of her kitchen when she was a young mother and housewife.