The company was able to vend a widened range of products such as shoes, evening wear, perfumes among others with its mail catalog issued eight times annually.
 
 By the early 1990s, Victoria’s Secret had become the largest American lingerie retailer topping the billion dollar mark.
 
 On July 10, 2007, Limited Brands Inc. sold 75% of Limited clothing chain to buyout firm Sun Capital Partners Inc. to focus and boost sales growth on Victoria’s Secret lingerie stores and Bath & Body Works units, which provided 72% of revenue in 2006 and almost all the firm’s profit