Avon, the company for women, is a leading global beauty company, with over $11 billion in annual revenue.
Avon has nearly 6 million active independent Sales Representatives in more than 100 countries.
David H. Mc. Connell didn’t originally intend to create a beauty company. A traveling book salesman, he founded Avon in 1886 after realizing his female customers were far more interested in the free perfume samples he offered than in his books.
During his bookselling days, Mc. Connell had also noticed that many of his female customers were isolated at home while their husbands went off to work. So he purposely recruited female sales Representatives. Mc. Connell believed they had a natural ability to network with and market to other women, and a passion for his products. At a time of limited employment options for women, the Avon earnings opportunity was a revolutionary concept. It marked the start of the company's long and rich history of empowering women around the globe.
Some of the biggest names in American stage and screen were featured in Avon advertisement Baseball legend Joe Di. Maggio appeared in Avon advertisements in the 1950 s
A 1952 Christmas advertisement with Loretta Young
Avon’s advertisement "Ding Dong Avon Calling” in 1954
Actress Rosalind Russell in an Avon’s advertisement
Cher, 1988
Catherine Deneuve, 1985
Fergie
Reese Witherspoon
Avon's product line includes beauty products, as well as fashion and home products. . .
…and features such well-recognized brand names as Avon Color, …
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Avon Skin-So-Soft
Avon Advance Techniques
Avon Naturals
Avon is a company steeped in tradition, grounded by its core values and principles as well as its vision "to be the company that best understands and satisfies the product, service and self-fulfillment needs of women – globally. "
The Avon Values Trust means we want to live and work in an environment where communications are open — where people feel free to take risks, to share their points of view and to speak the truth as they see it.
Respect helps us to value differences, to appreciate each person for her or his unique qualities. Through respect, we help bring out the full potential of each person.
Belief is encourage us to be the very best we can be. Believe in someone—and show it—and that person will move mountains to prove you’re right.
Humility simply means we’re not always right—we don’t have all the answers—and we know it. We’re no less human the people who work for us, and we’re not afraid to ask for help.
Integrity should be the hallmark of every Avon associate. In setting and observing the highest ethical standards and doing the right thing, we fulfill a duty of care, not only to our Representatives and customers in the communities we serve, but to our colleagues and ourselves.
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