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incorporated 15 November 1982
They had been neighbours since 1975, and before the luggage they had hung wallpaper together, in a Fort Wayne business called Up Your Wall. In March 1982, waiting for a flight in Atlanta, Barbara Bradley Baekgaard and Patricia R. Miller noticed the lack of feminine luggage in the airport. They started with five hundred dollars — the Fashion section's rendering of the same sum is two hundred fifty dollars each — a ping-pong table in Baekgaard's basement for a workbench, and the name of Baekgaard's mother: Vera Bradley. Vera Bradley Designs incorporated on 15 November 1982. Miller left the company in 2005 to serve as Indiana's first Secretary of Commerce and returned in 2006; the company went public in 2010. Both women are living, and this entry keeps to the public record. The bags, the patterns and the company's course are the Business and Fashion sections'.
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- Businesses — "Vera Bradley" (the company's history: the 1982 airport moment, the five hundred dollars, the basement start, the 15 November 1982 incorporation, the 2010 offering).
- Fashion — the Up Your Wall business and the two-hundred-fifty-dollars-each rendering of the founding stake.