Lush Cosmetics

also referred to as: lush

12 statements across 2 episodes · 8 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Oct 5, 2020 by Mark Constantine · said 42 times in 4 episodes since 2020 · across every show →

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brought up most by Guy Raz (41), Mark Constantine (1)

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2023 4 mentions in 1 episode
2020 38 mentions in 3 episodes 13 per episode

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Everything said about Lush Cosmetics, oldest first

Oct 5, 2020 positive
Insight
Mark Constantine: Small grants to grassroots activists go much further
“Small sums of money in hands of dynamic people who really care goes a long way. So when we give money, when we give, you know, a thousand or 2000 or 5000 to a group that wants to achieve something, you know, maybe they want to stop fracking, or maybe they want…”
Mark Constantine Oct 5, 2020 ▶ 1:13:03 Lush Cosmetics: Mark Constantine
Oct 5, 2020
Assertion Supported
Mark Constantine: Lush has donated over £50M to charity
“I mean, we give huge sums in charity. I mean, we've given over fifty million pounds.”
Mark Constantine Oct 5, 2020 ▶ 1:12:45 Lush Cosmetics: Mark Constantine
Oct 5, 2020 neutral
Insight
Constantine: Businesses must plan in six-week blocks during crisis
“One of the things we've tried to do is to break things up into six week periods. Because you can't really anticipate what the virus is going to do beyond a six week period. And so, and then trying to work out within that six week period, what do we think is go…”
Mark Constantine Oct 5, 2020 ▶ 1:21:03 Lush Cosmetics: Mark Constantine
Oct 5, 2020 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Packaging accounts for two-thirds of the cost of bottled shower gel
“If you've got a bottle of shower gel, when it went out from the factory, about two-thirds of the money went into the packaging and the labeling, and only a third into the contents.”
Mark Constantine Oct 5, 2020 ▶ 1:02:12 Lush Cosmetics: Mark Constantine
Oct 5, 2020 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Constantine: Lush received 1,000 business inquiries monthly early on
“We would get a thousand inquiries a month for people to do business with us.”
Mark Constantine Oct 5, 2020 ▶ 59:18 Lush Cosmetics: Mark Constantine
Oct 5, 2020 positive
Disclosure
Lush caps founder share valuation at 5x average three-year profit
“So we came up with this scheme where we valued our shares at five times the average of the last three years profit, so that we capped it a little bit, But we only kept the greed and we still, that still enabled us to, if we want to build the business, we can b…”
Mark Constantine Oct 5, 2020 ▶ 1:04:11 Lush Cosmetics: Mark Constantine
Oct 5, 2020
Disclosure
Constantine: Lush and Body Shop management bid £450M for Body Shop
“The management could raise about 360 million themselves to buy the body shop off of the strength of the body shop's figures. I could add my business to that and get up to about four 50, something like that.”
Mark Constantine Oct 5, 2020 ▶ 1:07:27 Lush Cosmetics: Mark Constantine
Oct 5, 2020 bullish
Assertion Contradicted
Constantine: Lush digital sales jumped 200% to 300% during COVID-19
“And we had between 203 hundred percent increase in our digital business, in our, you know, mail business.”
Mark Constantine Oct 5, 2020 ▶ 1:20:16 Lush Cosmetics: Mark Constantine
Oct 5, 2020 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Constantine: Lush mail order is more profitable than physical retail
“That area of our business is more profitable than the retail. So people moving on to the mail order business is quite a help because we then generate more profit.”
Mark Constantine Oct 5, 2020 ▶ 1:20:41 Lush Cosmetics: Mark Constantine
Oct 5, 2020 positive
Insight
Constantine: Surviving from zero creates intense personal drive and self-reliance
“I think when you have to survive from zero, obviously there's more drive, isn't there? I mean I look at photos of myself in my early twenties, and I see this awfully driven person. I mean, Just driven. Absolutely driven. I think, I suppose, you know, if you, i…”
Mark Constantine Oct 5, 2020 ▶ 12:58 Lush Cosmetics: Mark Constantine
Oct 5, 2020 positive
Opinion
Constantine: Lush's workplace standards regarding women came from Liz Bennett
“You know, when you look at Lush and people admire Lush for its values, especially the way women are treated and things like that, that's all Liz Bennett, Liz, that's, she married and her name became Bennett, Liz Weir, that's her.”
Mark Constantine Oct 5, 2020 ▶ 39:17 Lush Cosmetics: Mark Constantine
Jul 3, 2023 positive
Disclosure
Butler initially planned to launch a Lush-inspired venture called The Soap Bar
“In, in my soap making, I was like, I want to be Lush, and I think that's what made me say, like, I want to start a soap business, actually, because I was obsessed. Like, this is it. I, this is my way out. I'm gonna create a company, it's gonna be called The So…”
Melissa Butler Jul 3, 2023 ▶ 20:42 The Lip Bar (TLB): Melissa Butler (2020)
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