In her early 20s with plans to start a family and housework to be done, Lillian Vernon could have accepted life as a housewife, but instead, the young woman sat down at this small Formica kitchen ...

And, the Lillian Vernon catalog reminds us, the Pilgrim Windsock is New! and Ours Alone! “We’re going to sell 25,000. That’s unbelievable,” Vernon said.

Lillian Vernon Corp. announced Monday that it will go ahead with plans to invest $36.8 million to nearly double the size of its Virginia Beach distribution center. The catalog retailer put the plan… ...

When Lillian Vernon started a mail-order business out of her home 44 years ago, she didn’t set out to create one of the nation’s largest catalog retailers. Times were tight, Vernon says, and ...

A refugee of Nazi Germany, Vernon built her quirky mail-order operation into a $300 million enterprise back when women weren’t supposed to run businesses. “Lillian Vernon, who created a sprawling ...

Lillian Vernon created a new retail market, catalogs with a theme: personalized products that you couldn’t find anywhere else.” It wasn’t simply that, though.

Among a curiously diverse collection of knick-knacks, trinkets, and novelties, there was one notable similarity—a name. To some it was simply the name of a mail-order catalog, but to a great deal more ...

NEW YORK -- Lillian Vernon, the creator of a multimillion-dollar catalog business that sold specialized gifts and home goods, has died in New York. She was 88. Fred Hochberg, president and chairman… ...

Lillian Vernon, creator of multimillion dollar catalog business that sold specialized gifts and home goods, has died in New York. She was 88. Written by Associated Press December 16, 2015 09:22 IST ...

Lillian Vernon, 88, whose kitchen-table notion to sell monogrammed handbags and belts spawned one of America's best-known mail-order catalog businesses, died Monday in New York City, said her son Fred ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Lillian Vernon, creator of a multimillion dollar catalog business that sold specialized gifts and home goods, has died in New York. She was 88.Fred Hochberg, president and cha… ...