when they bought the Los Angeles-based manufacturer of Alberto VO5 Conditioning Hairdressing. He will become chairman emeritus and remain on the board. The company named V. James Marino to replace ...

Leonard Lavin, who built a small beauty supply firm into the billion-dollar Alberto-Culver company and owned a successful horse breeding, training and racing operation, has died. He was 97.

Leonard Lavin built Albert-Culver Co. from a firm that produced a single product, AlbertoVO5 Hairdressing ... Lavin was intrigued by the Alberto VO5 product, which movie studios were using ...

Alberto Culver was formed in 1955 by the Chicago entrepreneur Leonard Lavin, who took a Los Angeles-based supplier of beauty products and used it to develop the VO5 hairdressing brand. Alberto ...

The company—whose brands include TRESemme, Alberto VO5, Nexxus and St. Ives—said revenue increased 12% to $431.9 million. On an organic basis, which excludes currency fluctuations ...

RIVER FOREST, Ill. — Leonard Lavin, who built a small beauty supply firm into the billion-dollar Alberto-Culver company and owned a successful horse breeding, training and racing operation, has ...

Lavin created Alberto Culver Co. after borrowing money in 1955 to purchase a beauty supply company that sold Alberto VO5 hairdressing product, according to a family obituary. Lavin expanded the ...