Avon Products, Inc, is one of the largest direct sales merchandisers in the world of beauty and beauty related products. Avon product line includes items for skin care, makeup, carry fragrances for men and women, and toiletries for bath, hair care, personal hygiene, hand and body care and sun protection. It also includes a wide range of jewelry, clothing, gifts and collectibles.
Avon Product Line
Makeup
Avon Color has a target group of products that represent the latest innovation in high-performance, top quality cosmetics:
In addition to the color of Fanta-aging treatment with makeup Hydra Finish Fsilky-smooth with a cool and lightweight feel Perfect Wear Ftransfer-proof, durable products Color Trend Fembraces fashionable, elegant flowers at low prices
Skin care
A new comprehensive line age skin care management
Avon Skin Care perfect problem / solution products
Fundamentals simple, easy to understand and affordable skin care products
ClearSkin Facne control products for oily, blemish-prone skin
Moisture Therapy Fclinically designed for dry skin
Hair Care
Additional methods Fhair care line for more than 22 high-performance hair products for every hair type, age group and ethnicity.
Herbal Care Foffers range of hair care products are formulated with a special set of plant
Fragrance
Avon produces a global brand perfume in the year running at the end of the year, to coincide with the holiday season
Bath
Avon provides basic global products, giving individual countries a free hand to adapt and create products and packaging that they know will appeal to their unique customers. Avon has other brands such as Skin-So-Soft, Naturals, aromatherapy, foot works, Avon bubble bath and Milk Made
Jewelry
Avon specializes in the exclusive design of jewelry, including pierced and clip earrings, necklaces, bracelets, rings and watches. Avon is developing gold and silver-tone costume jewelry, and real 925 sterling silver, genuine and modeling stones and pearls.
Over the last 118 years Avon has seen it all from the ding-dong to dot-coms with three million members worldwide. With their new CEO, Andrea Jung at the helm, it will look a lot different on Avon. At the crossroads of a new era of Internet and the Millennium, three-quarters of American women who work, direct selling Avon is really the model seems outdated.
Avon "Corporate Culture
Daft (2003) described culture as "a set of core values, beliefs, understanding, and members of the general rules of organization." As shown in Appendix 5 Organizational culture exists on two levels.
At a superficial level, visible artifacts, which include the manner of dress, history, physical symbols, organizational ceremonies, and office layout? Surface-level cultural patterns are observable within the organization. On a deeper level of values and norms that govern behavior. Values cannot be observed directly, but they can be interpreted in the history, language and symbols that represent their interests. These values belong to the organization members, who jointly to understand their meaning. A good example of the importance of power politics, he is very straight and strong hierarchy is culture regulates the behavior of each member in the organization.
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