Jo Malone
16 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement May 18, 2020 by Jo Malone · across every show →
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May 18, 2020
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Jo Malone hired people to carry empty branded bags around NYC
“We employed people to walk around New York City holding 10 empty Jo Malone bags for the month and the six weeks run up to opening in Bergdorf Goodman, and by the time we did, everybody had seen these Jo Malone bags, which had nothing in them, and everybody tho…”
May 18, 2020
May 18, 2020
Jo Malone discovered her extraordinary sense of smell working at a florist
“What I noticed that I had, that my sense of smell was something that was very extraordinary. I didn't realize To what extent, but I would pick up the flowers, and I'd say, I'd smell the bottom of the end of the thing, and the top of the tulip, and I'd say, the…”
May 18, 2020
Product quality is pointless in new markets without proactive advance buzz
“There's no point taking any brand or any product to any part of the world, no matter how brilliant it is, if no one knows it's there. So, you have to create this buzz, and you have to create the voice, and you have to create the wantability.”
May 18, 2020
Jo Malone required capital, distribution expertise, and passion from her acquirer
“I was looking for three things. I was looking for people with deep pockets. I was looking for the financial bit, but I needed someone to teach us about distribution because we could see that distribution was a key and it was probably one of the things we were …”
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May 18, 2020 positive
Beauty conglomerates acquire indie brands because massive budgets cannot replicate founder authenticity
“Today they're certainly not, they're the They're the brands where everybody, you know, the big guys want to buy them, because they can see that we had created things that they, with all their money, and all their teams, and all their budgets, could not create.…”
May 18, 2020 positive
Industry skeptics incorrectly predicted Lime Basil and Mandarin fragrance would fail
“And I remember someone saying to me, no one's going to buy a fragrance called Lime, Basil and Mandarin. And I remember looking at them and saying, why not? That's what it is. Why are we pretending to call it something it's not? Well, they were wrong. It did.”
May 18, 2020 neutral
Jo Malone ran her household and sold skincare alone for a year
“For a year, I managed on my own. I made sure that my sister went to school every day, I'd take her, and then I'd come back home, nurse my mum, bath my mum, give her a breakfast, make the face creams up, get on the train with a shopping trolley. I'd go up to th…”
May 18, 2020 negative
May 18, 2020
Jo Malone accidentally assumed full liability for her mother's business debt
“But alone to me, I signed something that made me responsible for all the debt, so as I walked out of that door as a young woman, newly married, thinking, I'm, you know, gonna start again, little did I know that I was gonna have debt that I would have to pay of…”