Title
Avon Products, Inc.
Company
Avon Products, Inc., founded in 1886.
Headquarters
London, United Kingdom.
Archive Information
Avon corporate archives at Hagley Library and Museum
Keyword
Manufacturing
Consumer goods
Cosmetics
International business enterprises
direct selling
Company history website
Bibliography and scholarship
Klepacki, Laura Ann. Avon: Building the World’s Premier Company for Women. Hoboken, N.J.; Chichester: Wiley, 2006.
Jones, Geoffrey. Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Westkaemper, Emily. Selling Women’s History: Packaging Feminism in Twentieth-Century American Popular Culture. New Brunswick, New Jersey ; London: Rutgers University Press, 2017.
AVON Forum: Session 1 “Ding Dong! Avon Calling!” Virtual. Hagley Center. Accessed May 25, 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1y5uYgSg2Y.
Moura, S. (2015) ‘Try it at home: Avon and gender in Brazil, 1958–1975’, Business History, 57(6), pp. 800–821.
Finley, Laura. “Avon Corporation.” Encyclopedia of Domestic Violence and Abuse, 2013.
Peiss, Kathy Lee. Hope in a Jar : the Making of America’s Beauty Culture. 1st ed. New York: Metropolitan Books, 1998.
Casanova, Erynn Masi de. Making up the Difference : Women, Beauty, and Direct Selling in Ecuador. 1st ed. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011.
Manko, Katina. Ding Dong! Avon Calling!: The Women and Men of Avon Products, Incorporated. Oxford University Press, 2021.
Access
Open to the public, Lucas R. Clawson; Lclawson@Hagley.org