A 154,000 square foot warehouse annex opens in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Personalized Gifts catalogs are introduced. Outlet stores open in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, and Brooklyn, New York. Major 335,000 square-foot expansion of the National Distribution Center is completed, bringing total facilities to one million square feet. Lillian Vernon's autobiography, An Eye for Winners , is published by HarperCollins in hardcover and audiotapes.
Outlet store opens in Norfolk, Virginia.
Neat Ideas catalog is introduced. Outlet stores open in Lake George and Long Island, New York, and Myrtle Beach and Hilton Head, South Carolina. Lillian Vernon is named one of 50 leading Women Entrepreneurs of the World by the National Foundation for Women Business Owners. Paperback edition of An Eye For Winners is published. Lillian Vernon Gardening catalogs are introduced.