•Liz co founded her own firm in 1976 with her husband, Arthur Ortenberg, and partners Leonard Boxer and Jerome Chazen.
•In just 10 years sales of Liz Claiborne Inc. skyrocketed.
•The firm reached $5.6 million in 1986.
•Due to the new profit of the company the firm broke into the Fortune 500 list of "America's largest corporations".
•Liz Claiborne Inc. became the first company founded by a woman to be so honored.
•In 1987, Claiborne was elected chairman of the board and CEO of the company, but she retired from active management in 1989.

Success, success, success!