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Estée Lauder required Bobbi Brown to sign a 25-year non-compete
“They would like you to sign a 25 year non-compete.”
Estée Lauder canceled Bobbi Brown's contract, forcing her into a figurehead role
“Well, I didn't decide to leave. It was, you know, I was called into the office and thinking that I was going to, you know, have finally some candidates, because we were, we went to search to help me turn around this company and fix the company and all of that,…”
A Dallas finance firm backed a competitor after a failed buyout
“And then there was a Dallas-based company that tried to buy us, a finance company, that basically finally said, if you won't sell to us, we're just gonna knock you off with another makeup artist, which they did which is fine.”
Leonard Lauder apologized to Bobbi Brown for failing to protect her brand
“And at the very end, when I was getting ready to leave, and you know, at this point, he was in a, you know, sitting in a chair, not getting up, and he said, he grabbed my arm, and he said, I just have to apologize to you, and I said, Leonard, for what? I said,…”
Bobbi Brown Cosmetics was outselling Estée Lauder at Neiman Marcus in 1995
“You are beating us In the stores, and we were beating Estee Lauder and Neiman Marcus at the time.”
Bobbi Brown Cosmetics outsold Estée Lauder at Neiman Marcus
“We were beating Estee Lauder and Neiman Marcus at the time.”
Bobbi Brown Cosmetics was generating $1 billion in revenue when Brown left
“Like, you know, when I left, it was a billion dollars.”
Bobbi Brown: Jones Road launched the day her 25-year non-compete expired
“The day my 25 year non-compete expired, I did.”
The Today Show never paid Brown, and she never pitched products on-air
“They never paid me a nickel, and I never, ever pushed my brand.”
Estée Lauder eventually took over brand hiring without Brown's involvement
“I used to hire, approve and hire and interview every person that walked in that brand, and then I didn't anymore, and all of a sudden there were people Working on my brand that I never met before, and that I might not have hired”
Bobbi Brown Cosmetics launched with a 50/50 profit split on $15 lipsticks
“And he said, we'll sell them for 15 dollars. You get, you'll, you'll take seven 50, I'll take seven 50, we'll split it. So basically what he was saying, so basically what he was saying was, okay, You have to do the marketing, the PR, the shipping, you know, an…”
Bobbi Brown Cosmetics became Bergdorf Goodman's top-selling brand in four years
“After four years, we were the number one line in Bergdorf and Niemann's.”
Meeting Jeff Zucker's grandmother secured Bobbi Brown's 14-year Today Show stint
“So, he was the exec, he was the executive producer of the Today Show, and that's how I got on, and I stayed on for 14 years. Once a month for 14 years.”
Bobbi Brown was outselling Estée Lauder in department stores prior to acquisition
“Bobby was the number one brand, and Estee Lauder was number two”
Bobbi Brown launched Jones Road on the exact day her non-compete expired
“Why was, cause that was the day my non-compete was up, and I have worn a chain with an ampersand Charm with the date of my non-compete, because it doesn't feel good to not have my freedom, and I didn't have my freedom for so long, and finally I had my freedom,…”
Jones Road Beauty's business quadrupled after Bobbi Brown went viral on TikTok
“And we got bombarded, you know, with questions, and I was answering them, and they started to go viral, whatever number that meant, it did. And then, a year later, we launched, and so our business quadrupled. Like, it did really well.”
Jones Road Beauty operates with 40 to 50 employees and 12 stores
“I think there is, like, in our office in the forties, between 40 and 50 depending, and, you know, we now have 10 or 12 freestanding stores.”
Bobbi Brown founded Jones Road Beauty at age 62
“First of all, I was 62 years old when I started this brand.”
Brown sold a month's projection of 100 lipsticks on day one
“Well, we thought we would sell a hundred lipsticks the first month, which, you know, that was the thought, and we did a hundred the first day.”
Brown split her first $15 lipstick revenue 50/50 with a chemist
“He said, alright, why don't you sell it for 15 dollars? He said, I'll make it, you sell it, you'll get seven 50, I'll get seven 50. I thought, okay, that's a deal.”
Brown's original lipstick partnership started without a written contract
“Once we agreed that we would be partners, there was nothing in writing. It was just, wow, this could be interesting. It wasn't anything more than that.”
Brown found her first cosmetics manufacturing lab in an apartment elevator
“In, in, in, my apartment building in New York City, and I said hi. She said hi, and I said, what do you do? She said, oh, I work at a cosmetics Lab in Queens. And I said, oh, do you have a card? And I had my lipsticks recreated there, and they made my lipstick…”
Brown sold 100 lipsticks on her first day at Bergdorf Goodman
“Well, we thought we would sell a hundred lipsticks the first month, which, you know, that was the thought, and we did a hundred the first day.”
NBC's Today Show never paid Brown for her regular appearances
“They never paid me a nickel, and I never, ever pushed my brand.”
Brown created a custom makeup major at Emerson College
“I flew up with my dad, went to Emerson, and they, and I asked if they had a makeup program, and they said no, but we have something called An interdisciplinary program, and you can create your own major. And sure, you can study makeup.”
Magazine editorial makeup jobs paid a flat $150 a day rate
“No matter how big it is, you still get a 150 dollars a day.”
Brown: Prestigious editorial makeup gigs only paid $150 a day
“You do magazine work and editorial, it's fantastic. You, no matter how big it is, you still get a 150 dollars a day.”