On May 18, 1995, Seinfeld introduced a larger-than-life character into the pop culture consciousness. In “The Understudy,” Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) has a chance encounter with J. (Jacopo) Peterman ...

Go through all of the memorable characters on Seinfeld through the hit NBC comedy’s nine seasons and inevitably, the name “J. Peterman” will be come up. Played with flair and elegance by John O’Hurley ...

John O’Hurley has been in business with the real-life J. Peterman for more than 20 years. “It is the most unusual catalog you'll ever read,” O’Hurley, 70, told host Steve Kmetko on the most recent ...

John Peterman, founder of the J. Peterman apparel company, known for its iconic catalog and famous for being parodied on TV’s “Seinfeld,” spoke Dec. 7 at the Professional Women’s Forum in Lexington.

While catalogues may seem like old-school marketing in the digital age, many retailers still print them. Tiffany’s Blue Book is still in existence. Pottery Barn, L.L. Bean, Mastermind, the LCBO, J.

Retail prospects were dim for a while for John Peterman, better known as J. Peterman, creator of the quirky clothing catalog called the "Owner's Manual" and the inspiration behind a sitcom character ...

I was looking up at the pulpit, and I thought, You know, that would make a great bar, says Peterman, founder of Lexington, Ky.-based The J. Peterman Co. and catalog. Out of the ever-fermenting and ...

Years before Elaine Benes bumps into J. Peterman on the streets of the Seinfeld set, a member of the real Peterman family was forming vague visions of a future dress design on a Nacogdoches front ...

Catalog-based clothing and lifestyle brand J. Peterman filed to go public, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange commission late Friday. The Cincinnati-based direct-to-consumer ...

“It's not fun going bankrupt,” says John Peterman. He should know. When his $75 million company went bust in 1999, he left a trail of pain that started with him and extended to his family, his ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. According to O’Hurley, John Peterman, who founded the actual J. Peterman Company in 1987, only learned that he was being parodied ...