Everyday, Avon brings beauty to the lives of women all over the world. At Avon, beauty means finding the right lipstick shade for a customer; providing an earnings opportunity so a woman can support her family; and enabling a woman to get her first mammogram. Beauty is about women looking and feeling their best. It’s about championing economic empowerment and improving the lives of women around the world.
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." A leading global beauty company and one of the world's largest direct sellers, Avon has nearly $11 billion in annual revenue. Its product line includes beauty, fashion and home products, with such well-recognized brand names as Avon ANEW, Skin-So-Soft, Advance Techniques, Avon Natural. |
AVON'S FOUNDERDavid H. McConnell 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, McConnell 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. McConnell 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.
“If we stop and look over the past and then into the future, we can see that the possibilities are growing greater and greater every day; that we have scarcely begun to reach the proper results from the field we have before us.” |
As the company for women, Avon is committed to supporting the causes that matter most to women. We are passionate about speaking out against domestic violence and addressing this ugly issue that affects one in four women in the UK. Working closely with our charity partners we are dedicated to raising vital funds for life-saving services, lobbying the government for change and breaking down the silence surrounding domestic violence. In the UK, Avon supports national domestic violence charities Refuge and Women's Aid and international charity UNIFEM.
Avon and Refuge's Four Ways to Speak Out Against Domestic Violence In 2009 Avon and national domestic violence charity Refuge launched the Four Ways to Speak Out campaign, giving everyone four easy ways to help put an end to domestic abuse:
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