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.

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… ...

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 ...

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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.

Lillian Vernon, creator of the wildly specific Lillian Vernon catalog, has died. She was 88. Vernon launched her business in 1951, according to the New York Times , having fled Germany for the ...

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.

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.

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.