Eliot Orton, chairman of The Vermont Country Store, said the family did not have to look outside the company to find its new president. We chose Chris because he fit the need for the job and he has ...

When television’s “A Charlie Brown Christmas” special took aim at the holiday’s creeping commercialism a half-century ago, it targeted one particularly clanging symbol. So why is the Vermont Country ...

Orton's three sons, who are partners in the business, were leery at the prospect of adding something blue that might make customers see red. "We thought he was crazy. We thought he was out of his mind ...