新编实用英语综合教程3-Unit-2-Company-Profiles.ppt

PASSAGE II Everyone Has a Chance to Win Mary Kay was one of the most successful American businesswomen. In 1963 she started a company with a 5 000-dollar investment. Today, Mary Kay Cosmetics is an international company worth thousands of millions of dollars. Mary Kathlyn Wagner was born in the state of Texas in 1918. After World War II, Mary Kay looked for a job so she could support her children. Mary Kay began selling different kinds of products. At first, she sold books. Later, she visited people’s homes to show how home care products such as cleaning fluids and equipment helped ease housework. Mary Kay was successful selling home care products. Her supervisors praised her work, but they never increased her earnings. She left the company after a man she trained was given a more important job than she had. Mary Kay said later that she learned from this experience. It taught her that men did not believe that a woman could succeed in business. She decided to prove them wrong. So, she bought the rights to Mr. Heath’s skin care products and started her own company. She paid 5 000 dollars for the legal rights to the products. 1 2 3 4 In 1963 Mary Kay Cosmetics Company began operating in Dallas, Texas. The idea was to sell skin care products by showing them in homes and offices. Nine sales representatives were chosen to sell the products. Two years later, in 1965, the company was selling almost one million dollars worth of products. Mary Kay once said that success came fast because she did not have any time to waste. Now Mary Kay Cosmetics is the largest direct seller of skin care products in the United States. It develops and tests many skin care and beauty products for the face, body, hair and nails — many more products than when it first started selling in 1963. Today, Mary Kay Cosmetics has sales of more than one billion dollars. It has more than eight hundred thousand sales representatives in 37 countries around the world.