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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...