Avon
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About Us
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 cire 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 world’s largest direct seller and a leading beauty company, Avon has more than $10 billion in annual revenue. Its product line includes beauty, fashion and home products, with such well-recognized brand names as Avon Color, ANEW, Skin-So-Soft, Advance Techniques, Avon Naturals and mark. More products carry the Avon name than any other brand in the world.
Culture
What We Stand For Our Approach
At Avon, our beliefs have stood the test of time. We maintain the same vision, mission, values and principles today that have long earned our company trust and respect from our stakeholders. We believe that, in practice, these convictions help to generate long-term value for our employees, customers, investors and community members.
Our founding principles guide us in the conduct of our business and are vital to our ability to realize our vision for the future.
Diversity
People and Diversity
Our Approach
From research and development and manufacturing to sales management, marketing, customer service and our many other operations, our 42,000 Avon Associates worldwide play an integral role in our success. We attract passionate and dedicated individuals from every market (see chart below), and we seek to help them to reach their highest potential as part of our team.
We recognize that every Associate brings unique skills and experiences to our organization, and we seek to leverage these differences in the most effective ways possible. Just as we unite our Associates through their similarities, we also recognize and appreciate their differences and seek to create an environment conducive to individual and collective excellence. We are committed to maintaining a work environment that affords all Associates opportunities for development and advancement. Our vision is for all Associates to feel comfortable enough to contribute their thoughts and ideas for the mutual benefit of all Associates and the organization. We are also committed to maintaining a culture that supports Associates as they balance their many, and sometimes competing, professional and personal responsibilities.
Because we seek to leverage the diversity of all of our Associates, diversity and inclusion are fully embedded in our corporate culture. Andrea Jung, who has now served as Chairman and CEO for more than a decade, is consistently recognized not only for the vision and perspective she brings to our company, but also as one of the foremost executives and one of the most powerful women in business. Her leadership and example are an inspiration to all Avon employees as we strive for our own personal excellence
CEO Message
Executive Leadership Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Avon Products, Inc. Andrea Jung, Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Office of the Company Director since 1998Andrea Jung
Ms. Jung was elected Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of the Company effective September 2001, having previously served as Chief Executive Officer since November 1999. Ms. Jung has been a member of the Board of Directors since January 1998 and was President from January 1998 to January 2001 and Chief Operating Officer from July 1998 to November 1999. She was elected an Executive Vice President of the Company in March 1997 concurrently continuing as President, Global Marketing, a position she held from July 1996 to the end of 1997. Ms. Jung joined the Company in January 1994 as President, Product Marketing for Avon U.S. Previously, she was Executive Vice President for Neiman Marcus and a Senior Vice President for I. Magnin. Ms. Jung is a director of Apple Inc. and the General Electric Company. She is a member of the N.Y. Presbyterian Hospital Board of Trustees, a director of Catalyst and Chairman of the World Federation of Direct Selling Associations.
Careers
Careers at Avon
Since its inception, Avon has been committed to corporate citizenship and bettering the lives of the people in the communities it serves. At Avon, employees don’t have to choose between doing well in the corporate world and doing good in the world at large. Giving back to society is deeply ingrained in all that Avon does
Worldwide Opportunities
As a global beauty company, Avon has jobs around the world in everything from Research and Development, finance and marketing, to supply chain management and communications. With Avon’s continuing global expansion come new employment opportunities in new markets. To learn more about making an impact at Avon around the world, click here.
