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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Shares of specialty retailer Lillian Vernon gained by 69 percent in afternoon dealings, spurred by a definitive buyout agreement valued at more than $60 million. A private equity fund managed by ...

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 ...

ZelnickMedia purchased Lillian Vernon Corporation for $60.5 million in 2003, moving the company’s headquarters to White Plains a few years later. Vernon received $24 million from the sale, and was ...

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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 ...