2. What is mary kay
★ an American privately owned direct sales company that sells cosmetics
products
★ MK sells its products through idependent beauty consultants
★ Mary Kay Inc.‘s global wholesale sales are $4 billion
★ 6th largest direct selling company in the world in 2015
○ Note: direct selling = marketing and selling of products directly to
consumers away from a fixed retail location
3. Timeline
★ 1963 - Mary Kay was founded on Friday, Sept. 13 in Dallas, Texas.
★ 1971 - Mary Kay expanded by opening its first international subsidiary in Australia.
★ 1989 - Mary Kay Inc. initiated a corporate recycling program for paper, plastic, glass
and aluminum.
★ 1996 - The Mary Kay Ash Charitable Foundation was established, now known as The
Mary Kay FoundationSM (funding research on cancer and fighting against violence)
★ 2010 - Mary Kay received the first ever “Do Good” stamp from Ladies' Home
Journal – it was made to recognize companies that contribute to making the world a
better place
4. WHERE it operates
★ headquarters – Addiston, TX
★ primary manufacturing plant – Dallas, TX
★ second plant – Hangzhou, China - manufactures and packages products for
the market
★ third plant - opened in 1997, in La Chaux-de-Fonds in Switzerland, for the
European market – it was closed in 2003.
★ official website: www.marykay.com
5. WHERE it operates
★ Argentina
★ Armenia
★ Australia
★ Belarus
★ Brazil
★ Canada
★ Colombia
★ Czech republic
★ El Salvador
★ Finland
★ Germany
★ Guatemala
★ Hong Kong
★ Kazakhstan
★ Korea
★ Lithuania
★ Malaysia
★ Mexico
★ Moldova
★ Netherlands
★ New Zealand
★ Norway
★ Philippines
★ Poland
★ Portugal
★ Russia
★ Singapore
★ Slovakia
★ Spain
★ Sweden
★ Switzerland
★ Taiwan
★ Ukraine
★ United Kingdom
★ United States
★ Uruguay
6. WHO is in the company
★ MARY KAY ASH – founder
★ ROBERT R. ROGERS – executive chairman
★ DAVID HOLL – CEO
★ staff – 5000 employees
★ sales people – 3.5 million
7. WHY did Mary Kay Ash founded MARY KAY?
★ she had one big dream – „to inspire women to transform
their lives, and in doing so, help other women achieve
success“
★ „Mary Kay also touches hearts through a powerful legacy
of giving back to the global community “
14. Europe
★ Mary Kay in Germany sponsored schools and children in Rwanda in order to give
them new opportunities
★ Mary Kay volunteers in Spain carried and distributed supplies to Madrid food bank –
Mary Kay inspires next generation to help world around them
15. Asia Pacific
★ donating “Pink Dream Libraries” in order to inspire children to read and learn (they
have donated more than 30 Pink Dream Libraries across the country)
16. North AMerica
★ Girl Scouts – helping Mary Kay with educating young girls about health relationship
★ Mary Kay members and their families – planting trees on Earth Day
17. Latin America
★ Mary Kay is focused on breast cancer prevention
★ donating food in Mexico
★ trying to avoid domestic violence
18. Transforming lives around the world
★ supporting small businesses with small loans
★ creating more beautiful and better future for women – e. g. (in china improving the
quality of women´s lives)
19. Transforming lives around the world
★ beauty that counts – a program that helps children and women in need all around the world –
they want to make their lives just a bit more beautiful
★ money from the sale of some products are used to promote education, health care and well-
being of women and their families
★ the Mary Kay foundation – helps women who have experienced domestic violence or breast
cancer, because they are affected on deepest levels than other problems they have
★ abuse prevention – trying to end violence against women, they are helping young people to get
healthy dating and relationship support - #loveshouldn´thurt #loveisrespect
★ providing advocacy for women in need and who are experiencing domestic violence
20. Activities of MARY KAY in Slovakia and Czech Republic
★ since 2005 - Friends of child oncology – material and financial gifts to help hospitals and support children
suffering from cancer
★ since 2010 – supports pink flamingos in the Bratislava ZOO and penguins in the Košice ZOO
★ helps to collect lids from the plastic bottles to help children in need
★ social sites – in 2013 provided 0,20€ for every new Facebook fan to the Friends of child oncology
★ in 2013 planted more than 100 new trees
★ in 2013 helped people affected by the floods
★ financially supported Czech club of the deaf
★ in 2004 helped after the calamity caused by a windstorm in the High Tatras and provided Unicef with money
to help Southeast Asia
★ and more
21. Animal testing
★ in 1989 the company announced that it won‘t test its products on animals. They
were among the first in their industry to sign the PETA pledge.
★ in 2012, Mary Kay expanded to China and had to obey its law which requires
animal testing on all health and beauty products. It is the Chinese government
that performs this testing, not Mary Kay. However, Mary Kay has been removed
from PETA‘s "Don't Test on Animals“ list
22. Notable MARY KAY quotes
★ “PEOPLE WILL SUPPORT THAT WHICH THEY HELP CREATE.”
★ “PICTURE A SIGN AROUND EACH PERSON’S NECK THAT
SAYS, “MAKE ME FEEL IMPORTANT.””
★ “WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE AND THE HEART BELIEVE,
THAT YOU CAN ACHIEVE.”
★ “YOU CANNOT TEACH WHAT YOU DON’T KNOW AND YOU
CANNOT LEAD WHERE YOU WON’T GO”
