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Avon Leader An Inspiration

I met this woman at an Avon Career Seminar in Las Vegas in April 2007 and she truly was an inspiration to me. She stressed to all of us in attendance that family came first and then comes everything else. I hope to be as successful with my Avon Business as Ms. Maldonado is with hers.Cynthia Rios GarciaSan Jose

The Valley News :: Murrieta woman featured in national Avon ad campaign

Avon Declares Dividend

NEW YORK, May 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Avon Products, Inc. (NYSE: AVP) today declared a regular quarterly dividend on its common stock of $.185 per share, payable June 1, 2007, to shareholders of record May 18, 2007.

Avon, the company for women, is a leading global beauty company, with almost $9 billion in annual revenue. As the world's largest direct seller, Avon markets to women in well over 100 countries through over five million independent Avon Sales Representatives. Avon's product line includes beauty products, fashion jewelry and apparel, and features such well-recognized brand names as Avon Color, Anew, Skin-So-Soft, Avon Solutions, Advance Techniques, Avon Naturals, Mark, and Avon Wellness. Learn more about Avon and its products at http://www.avoncompany.com/.

Company News On-Call:  http://www.prnewswire.com/comp/079575.html

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Avon VP Joins Starbucks Brand Manager as Event Planners of the Year

BiZBash (http://www.bizbash.com), the largest trade magazine and web site for event planners and producers, announced today in its December 2006 New York edition that the editors have chosen Holly Rosenfeld, brand strategy manager, Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX); Joe Billone, vice president, communications and events, North America events, Avon(NYSE: AVP); and Jeff Earl, director of event planning, News Corp (NYSE: NWS, NWS.A; ASX: NWS, NWSLV), as its 2006 Event Planners of the Year.

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Avon Still Working on it's Makeover

Beauty-product manufacturer and seller Avon Products (NYSE: AVP) used to have a reputation as a steady grower and prodigious generator of cash. Unfortunately, smudges began to appear in late 2004, snowballing into a four-point turnaround announced in November 2005. How's this faded beauty queen looking now?

Judging by third-quarter results released at the end of October, restructuring efforts have been a mixed bag at best. Overall sales trends may be returning to Avon's heyday of rapid growth, but it will take more than a couple of quarters for investors to become convinced that the company is out of the woods.

Avon's Makeover [Fool.com: Motley Fool Take] November 8, 2006

Avon Testing New Packing System in Brazil

CHEP announced Thursday that it plans to use a new global-track-and-trace system to provide trading partners in its supply chain with real-time visibility to items shipped on the company's pallets and containers.

The new solution is being tested with several customers in the automotive and consumer package goods industries, including Procter & Gamble and Avon in Brazil.

CHEP launches global track-and-trace system - Orlando Business Journal:

Avon Cosmetics Teminates Lease With Trump

The cosmetics company is closing all its stores and spas, and now we hear it's just paid Donald J. Trump $10 million for the pleasure of terminating the remaining years on their flagship lease.

Since Trump has already pocketed $25 million from Asprey for the privilege of vacating that giant corner store, it means the entire Fifth Avenue frontage from Tiffany's to 56th Street is available.

"I have the best block and am being besieged by offers," Trump said of the retail space, declining to discuss the Avon lease.

AVON PAYS OFF TRUMP By LOIS WEISS - New York Post Online Edition: Seven

Avon Products Inc. Eliminates $5 Million In Expenses From Job Cuts

Avon Products Inc., the world's largest door-to-door seller of cosmetics, said it plans to record expenses of as much as $5 million US before taxes as part of the company's attempt to increase profit by eliminating jobs.

The costs are part of $500 million New York-based Avon expects to spend as it reorganizes, including cutting as many as 1,300 positions over the next several years. Avon spokesman Victor Beaudet declined to comment on how many job cuts were associated with the $5-million expense. Avon has 45,000 workers.

Chief executive officer Andrea Jung is eliminating jobs, closing unprofitable units and increasing advertising as Avon tries to compete in cosmetics with larger companies such as Procter & Gamble Co. In July, Avon reported that second-quarter net income declined 54 per cent to $150.9 million, or 33 cents a share.

Avon Products reorganization will trim jobs

Avon Looking Closely at Compensation Plan

Avon Products Inc. (AVP), the direct seller of beauty products such as Anew moisturizer, is looking more closely at the way it compensates its U.S., Brazilian and Russian representatives.During a conference call Monday, Avon Chairman and Chief Executive Andrea Jung said the review will focus on all aspects of compensation and incentives, as well as on other factors that impact representative economics and perceived satisfaction."This analytical work on the representative value proposition is a very high priority for us during the upcoming quarters, and we will have more to say on it later this year," Jung said.In the latest quarter, sales representative activity in the U.S. weakened from the first quarter.According to Jung, there is a relationship between lower levels of activity and higher fuel prices, particularly among its sales representatives in the U.S. at lower income levels."While we certainly cannot control the price of gas, we're looking at a range of other factors that we can control - brochure economics, relooking at fee structures, etcetera," Jung said.

Avon mulls plan for representative compensation - MarketWatch

Avon Walk for Breast Cancer

A couple of thousand volunteers and their supporters fanned out across San Francisco and Marin County this weekend raising awareness and more than $1 million to fight breast cancer.

KCBS reporter Henry Mulak says the people were participating in a walk from Marin to San Francisco and back in the annual Avon Walk for Breast Cancer.

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Former Army Sergeant Swaps Stripes For Avon

A FORMER Army sergeant has swapped her stripes to become one of Britain's best Avon ladies.

Joy Cole, 35, from Neath, is now one of the company's rising stars and reckons it's her tough Army career that's made selling cosmetics a breeze.

The mum-of-two, pictured, said: "I was a military accountant and worked up to the rank of sergeant and I loved being in the Army.

"I worked in a male-orientated world but that has only been a good thing as it's given me the confidence, experience and management training to make a success of selling Avon cosmetics.

"To be honest, it's not something I ever imagined I would be doing. I'm not a girly girl at all. Don't get me wrong, I like wearing make-up and looking nice but I never, ever envisaged myself as an Avon lady!"

icWales - Joy now earns her stripes for Avon