AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

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Date	Title and Summary	Additional Formats
Toggle SummaryMarch 2020	Griffin Thall, Co-Founder of Pura Vida, was nominated for Digiday’s Future Leader Awards in the “Brand” category. The awards recognize the next generation of leaders across the media and marketing, fashion, beauty, wellness and retail industries.
Toggle SummaryMarch 2020	Our ReActive Drawstring Family Tote, made from recycled plastic bottles, was named one of Good Housekeeping’s “40 Best Eco-Friendly Products to Help the Planet.”
Toggle SummaryJanuary 2020	The National Retail Federation, the world’s largest retail trade association that advocates for the people, brands, policies, and ideas that help retail thrive, has named Robert Wallstrom, CEO of Vera Bradley, to its Board of Directors.
Toggle SummaryDecember 2019	Vera Bradley won the 2019 Outlet Retail Chain Best Marketing Program Award, handed out at the (ICSC) International Council of Shopping Center Deal Making Conference on December 10 in NYC. Vera Bradley was among 84 outlet chains nominated for this prestigious industry award.
Toggle SummarySeptember 2019	Newsweek in conjunction with Statista, launched the Inaugural Best Online Shops Award List. The Best Online Shops were selected based on a detailed screening process, an extensive usability testing phase and a nationwide survey of over 8,000 American online shoppers, and verabradley.com was named a Top 10 website in the Fashion & Accessories Industry.
Toggle SummarySeptember 2019	The Vera Bradley + Venus razor collaboration has been recognized in People Magazine’s “Best New Beauty Products of 2019 Awards.” People noted, “the iconic handbag brand teamed up with Venus to customer design a handle, disposable razors, cartridge refills and shaving cream so pretty, we bet they’ll be front and center in your next bathroom shelfie.”
Toggle SummarySeptember 2019	The Accessories Council selected Vera Bradley’s innovative Iconic Lay Flat Duffel as a winner for its Design Excellence Awards in the Travel/Luggage Category.
Toggle SummaryAugust 2019	2020 Women on Boards, a nonprofit education and advocacy campaign committed to raising awareness about the value of gender-diverse boards with at least 20% female directors, named Vera Bradley a “Winning Company” for our commitment to board diversity.
Toggle SummaryAugust 2019	Apparel Magazine listed Vera Bradley as #30 in this year’s Top 50 Report — an annual ranking of the most profitable apparel companies, with at least $100 million in sales that trade on the U.S. stock exchange
Toggle SummaryAugust 2019	The Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center, which houses the Vera Bradley Foundation Center for Breast Cancer Research at Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis, has achieved the federal government’s most prestigious designation: Comprehensive Cancer Center. This is the highest level of recognition awarded by the National Cancer Institute for research excellence. The IU Cancer Center is the first Comprehensive Cancer Center in Indiana.