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- John Peterman (born 1941) is an American catalog and retail entrepreneur from Lexington, Kentucky, who operates the J. Peterman Company. He grew up in West Nyack, New York as the son of a banker and secretary. He is known for founding the J. Peterman Company after finding a cowboy duster on a business trip.
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John Peterman (born 1941) [1] is an American catalog and retail entrepreneur from Lexington, Kentucky, who operates the J. Peterman Company. He grew up in West Nyack, New York as the son of a banker and secretary. [2] He is known for founding the J. Peterman Company after finding a cowboy duster on a business trip. [3]
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Jul 9, 2019 · From a duster bought in Jackson Hole to "Seinfeld," John Peterman's company keeps it in the family with the founder's son serving as cretive director Thirty years ago this month, a sitcom about a quartet of New Yorkers made its debut on NBC.
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The J. Peterman Company is an American retail company that sells clothing, fashion accessories, and furniture primarily through catalogs and the Internet. It was founded by John Peterman in 1987 and has its headquarters in Blue Ash, Ohio. [2]
Formerly a second baseman for the Pittsburgh Pirates, John Peterman was the chairman and CEO of the J. Peterman Company from 1987 to 1999. He is currently writing a book about the company...
- J. Peterman Had Dreams of Being A Baseball Player.
- An Everyday Duster Coat Sparked J. Peterman’s Imagination.
- J. Peterman Ignored Advice to Dumb Down His Catalog.
- The J. Peterman Catalog Uses Illustrations of Its Clothing For A reason.
- The Real J. Peterman Became Friends with Seinfeld’s Version of J. Peterman.
- J. Peterman Attempted to Create A Real Urban Sombrero.
Before he entered the world of business, Peterman played second and third base in the minor leagues. In 1963, the 22-year-old rookie played for the Kingsport Pirates, and in 1965, he was with the Batavia Pirates. A leg injury forced him to hang up his glove, but his passion for the sport remained: In 2018, the Nokona Infielder’s Glove appeared in t...
Peterman and his late business partner Don Staley tried their hand at multiple business ventures, most of them highly unusual and niche—manufacturing beer cheese, for example, and healing sickly houseplants—before they found the one that clicked. The inspiration was a seemingly everyday item: a duster coat that Peterman purchased while on a trip to...
By 1987, Peterman and Staley's mail order business was getting off the ground. But if the duo took the advice they were offered at the time, the catalog would never have featured the flowery product copy that helped it stand out in the market. During a 2018 interview with Racked, Peterman recalled that professionals in the catalog business told him...
Unlike most mail order catalogs, the J. Peterman Company shows off its clothing exclusively through illustrations, not photographs. And the illustrations don't even depict a person wearing the item. But apparel illustrators Valerio Anibaldi and Carolyn Fanelli do use models when they begin working on an item, sketching figures clad in the garment a...
Despite an impressive resume that includes stints on Broadway, John O’Hurley has become indelibly associated with his portrayal of Peterman on Seinfeld. The character was so popular that O’Hurley returned for 19 more episodes following his first appearance. Unlike Seinfeld’s Peterman, an urban dandy with an immaculately groomed mane of white hair a...
Like a true entrepreneur, Peterman explores all avenues when it comes to promoting, or resurrecting, his business. In 2016, he launched a Kickstarter campaign to bring back the Mod Flapper Dress and the Café Racer Jacket, two classics from his catalog. He also introduced one more: the ridiculously oversized—and ridiculously named—Urban Sombrero. Th...
Mar 4, 2019 · Seinfeld’s “J. Peterman,” actor John O’Hurley, and the real John Peterman. Then in the mid-1990s, J. Peterman experienced what you’d think was a dream come true–the man and company were co-opted by Seinfeld, providing exposure to tens of millions of people each and every Thursday night.
The real Peterman, in this case, is John Peterman: retailer, former baseball player, Kentucky rancher, one-time author and subject of the transcendent imagination of a copywriting genius...
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