1951 A housewife expecting her first child, Lillian Vernon uses $2,000 of wedding-gift money to buy a supply of purses and belts, and places a $495 ad in Seventeen magazine, offering personalized belt ...

RYE, N.Y. (AP) _ Lillian Vernon is selling the catalog company that she founded more than half a century ago at her kitchen table. Lillian Vernon Corp., which has performed poorly in recent years, is ...

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 ...

Collections from groundbreaking entrepreneurs Byron Lewis and Lillian Vernon will be showcased in a new display within the landmark “American Enterprise” exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National ...

Re "Catalog creator Vernon dies in NYC at age 88," Dec. 16 article: Lillian Vernon was a pioneer in business who employed hundreds to thousands of people in Westchester. From warehouses in Mount ...

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 ...

A federal bankruptcy judge in Wilmington, Del., cleared the way Thursday for a subsidiary of Minnesota conglomerate Taylor Corp. to purchase bankrupt retailer Lillian Vernon Corp. Judge Brendan L.

The owner of Lillian Vernon, the catalog and Internet retailer that has called the city home for 22 years, plans to shutter its headquarters off International Parkway, citing a drop in sales. Current ...

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 step ...

In the 1950s, as a young housewife, Lillian Vernon created a mail order company from her kitchen table. She was in charge for more than 50 years. It still exists but is under different ownership. The ...