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Roxanne Quimby

31 statements across 2 episodes · 9 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 18, 2019 by Roxanne Quimby · said 11 times in 5 episodes since 2019 · across every show →

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Feb 18, 2019 positive
Opinion
Quimby Believes She Was More Responsible With Burt's Bees Wealth Than Shavitz
“I feel that I was the more responsible party for managing wealth. I could do the right thing with it. And I don't know whether Bert would have really used it very productively.”
Roxanne Quimby Feb 18, 2019 ▶ 49:23 Burt's Bees: Roxanne Quimby
Feb 18, 2019
Assertion Supported
Burt Shavitz Lived Off-Grid in a Converted Turkey Coop
“And he lived the same way, no phone, no electricity, in a little tiny cabin that he had hauled over to his property. It was a turkey coop.”
Roxanne Quimby Feb 18, 2019 ▶ 15:03 Burt's Bees: Roxanne Quimby
Feb 18, 2019 neutral
Disclosure
Quimby Stepped Down When Big-Box Expansion Felt Uncreative
“Going to big box and drugstore chains didn't seem very exciting or creative to me, but it was clearly the next step. So, I felt like it was time to turn it over to the professionals.”
Roxanne Quimby Feb 18, 2019 ▶ 45:16 Burt's Bees: Roxanne Quimby
Feb 18, 2019 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Burt's Bees Hired a High School Math Student as Early Bookkeeper
“We called the school, and we told them we needed someone good in math, and so they said, oh, we have just the fellow, he's on the math team. So he came over after school, you know, he would pay the bills, and he would do the payroll, and he would make the depo…”
Roxanne Quimby Feb 18, 2019 ▶ 25:53 Burt's Bees: Roxanne Quimby
Feb 18, 2019
Assertion Supported
Roxanne Quimby Apprenticed for Burt Shavitz Hauling Honey for a Summer
“So, I followed him around for a summer as an apprentice, and did a lot of the heavy work, hauling supers of honey around, extracting. I learned all about the bees, and I got to work with Bert.”
Roxanne Quimby Feb 18, 2019 ▶ 16:12 Burt's Bees: Roxanne Quimby
Feb 18, 2019 positive
Insight
A Consumer Pull Strategy Drove Burt's Bees to Its Tipping Point
“So that kind of a pulling strategy from the consumer really helped a lot with growth, and there was a tipping point where it seemed that everybody knew about it.”
Roxanne Quimby Feb 18, 2019 ▶ 44:13 Burt's Bees: Roxanne Quimby
Feb 18, 2019 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Burt's Bees Bypassed Traditional Beauty Ad Spend Via Grassroots Marketing
“I've heard even that 25 cents of every dollar goes into advertising, so we didn't have that expense, because, you know, guerrilla marketing and grassroots marketing is not very expensive.”
Roxanne Quimby Feb 18, 2019 ▶ 47:00 Burt's Bees: Roxanne Quimby
Feb 18, 2019
Disclosure
Quimby Put Shavitz on Packaging to Reject Beauty Industry Exploitation
“And that was a very conscious decision to use Bert's face because I was, I guess, a little resentful of the way women were used to market Products. And I saw some of the big cosmetics lines really exploiting the image of women and defining them through the adv…”
Roxanne Quimby Feb 18, 2019 ▶ 39:27 Burt's Bees: Roxanne Quimby
Feb 18, 2019 positive
Disclosure
Burt's Bees Hit $20,000 Sales Goal Before Targeting $1 Million
“Well, I don't remember exactly how our sales went in the eighties, but we were growing every year. My original goal was 20,000 dollars in sales, and then when that goal was achieved, then I set another goal of a million dollars in sales by the time my kids gra…”
Roxanne Quimby Feb 18, 2019 ▶ 23:03 Burt's Bees: Roxanne Quimby
Feb 18, 2019 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Burt's Bees Co-Founders Paid Themselves $36,000 a Year in Maine
“Well, at one point, before we left Maine, we decided to pay ourselves 36,000 dollars a year.”
Roxanne Quimby Feb 18, 2019 ▶ 41:27 Burt's Bees: Roxanne Quimby
Feb 18, 2019 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
An Early Burt's Bees Craft Fair Generated $200 in a Day
“I remember a really good show at the local junior high where it was 200 dollars was the take of the day, and that was a lot of money to me.”
Roxanne Quimby Feb 18, 2019 ▶ 20:03 Burt's Bees: Roxanne Quimby
Feb 18, 2019
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Roxanne Quimby Lived Off-Grid in Maine on $4,000 a Year
“We were living on about 4000 dollars a year.”
Roxanne Quimby Feb 18, 2019 ▶ 10:35 Burt's Bees: Roxanne Quimby
Feb 18, 2019 neutral
Disclosure
Roxanne Quimby Rejected Her Family's MBA Path for Art School
“Both of my sisters had MBAs, like my dad did, and earning power and one's achievements were emphasized, and I took a turn to the extreme left when I went to art school and I rejected the pursuit of material comforts.”
Roxanne Quimby Feb 18, 2019 ▶ 4:33 Burt's Bees: Roxanne Quimby
Feb 18, 2019 negative
Disclosure
A Personal Transgression by Burt Shavitz Fractured His Partnership With Quimby
“Well, it was sort of a personal transgression that was very hurtful to me, and it kind of popped the bubble in a way. I took a lot of inspiration from Bert and his lifestyle and his authenticity and his independence, and I found him to be quite admirable. So a…”
Roxanne Quimby Feb 18, 2019 ▶ 42:21 Burt's Bees: Roxanne Quimby
Aug 23, 2021 negative
Disclosure
A personal transgression by Burt Shavitz destroyed Quimby's inspiration
“Well, it was sort of a personal transgression that was very hurtful to me, and it kind of popped the bubble in a way. I took a lot of inspiration from Bert and his lifestyle and his authenticity and his independence, and I found him to be quite admirable. So a…”
Roxanne Quimby Aug 23, 2021 ▶ 39:09 Burt's Bees: Roxanne Quimby (2019)
Aug 23, 2021 neutral
Opinion
Burt Shavitz was prickly and kept at a distance by colleagues
“He was a prickly kind of guy, you know, he wasn't all warm and fuzzy. So, people, including myself, gave him kind of a wide berth.”
Roxanne Quimby Aug 23, 2021 ▶ 26:43 Burt's Bees: Roxanne Quimby (2019)
Aug 23, 2021
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Quimby moved to Maine because $3,000 couldn't buy Vermont land
“We had 3000 dollars. We went to Vermont, and the Vermont realtor that we spoke with said that You couldn't buy any land in Vermont for 3000 dollars, but try Maine. So we went to Maine.”
Roxanne Quimby Aug 23, 2021 ▶ 5:55 Burt's Bees: Roxanne Quimby (2019)
Aug 23, 2021
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Quimby lived on $4,000 a year homesteading off-grid in Maine
“We were living on about 4000 dollars a year.”
Roxanne Quimby Aug 23, 2021 ▶ 9:10 Burt's Bees: Roxanne Quimby (2019)
Aug 23, 2021 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Burt's Bees hired a high school math student as bookkeeper
“We called the school, and we told them we needed someone good in math. And so they said, oh, we have just the fellow, he's on the math team. So he came over. After school, you know, he would pay the bills, and he would do the payroll, and he would make the dep…”
Roxanne Quimby Aug 23, 2021 ▶ 23:25 Burt's Bees: Roxanne Quimby (2019)
Aug 23, 2021 bullish
Disclosure
Burt's Bees invested excess operational cash into buying land
“And we had put all the money we needed to into growing the business. It still had excess cash. And I felt like we needed to find a very solid investment. And so land seemed to be rock solid to me.”
Roxanne Quimby Aug 23, 2021 ▶ 44:02 Burt's Bees: Roxanne Quimby (2019)
Aug 23, 2021
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Burt Shavitz managed maintenance and bills while Quimby handled production
“We divided up the work. He would collect all the overdue bills, you know, overdue accounts receivables, and he was a fixer. When things broke down or needed maintenance, he was always willing to do that. And I was very hands-on with the product development and…”
Roxanne Quimby Aug 23, 2021 ▶ 26:54 Burt's Bees: Roxanne Quimby (2019)
Aug 23, 2021 negative
Opinion
Quimby: I was more responsible than Burt Shavitz to manage wealth
“I feel that I was the more responsible party for managing wealth. I could do the right thing with it. And I don't know whether Bert would have really used it very productively. He came from a family that had some wealth, and he chose not to use it. He didn't d…”
Roxanne Quimby Aug 23, 2021 ▶ 46:12 Burt's Bees: Roxanne Quimby (2019)
Aug 23, 2021 neutral
Assertion Supported
Burt Shavitz originally sold honey in used restaurant pickle jars
“Well, he was selling them in used gallon jars. You know, like, that pickles and relish come in in the restaurant business.”
Roxanne Quimby Aug 23, 2021 ▶ 16:03 Burt's Bees: Roxanne Quimby (2019)
Aug 23, 2021 positive
Insight
Burt's Bees dropped candles because skincare scaled far more efficiently
“I think because it wasn't scalable, and the skincare products, which were basically blending and filling, it was a very simple manufacturing process that could easily be scaled, and we were making handmade candles, so to go to an automated system just required…”
Roxanne Quimby Aug 23, 2021 ▶ 30:32 Burt's Bees: Roxanne Quimby (2019)
Aug 23, 2021 positive
Insight
Consumer pull strategy drove massive retail growth at Burt's Bees
“So that kind of a pulling strategy from the consumer really helped a lot with growth.”
Roxanne Quimby Aug 23, 2021 ▶ 41:07 Burt's Bees: Roxanne Quimby (2019)
Aug 23, 2021 neutral
Opinion
Quimby attributes Burt's Bees' pivotal milestones to luck and timing
“I mean, you certainly have to work hard, but when I look back at some of the critical events that were part of the destiny of this adventure, I certainly couldn't have pulled those off. That had to be luck or Divine intervention, and there's been so many of th…”
Roxanne Quimby Aug 23, 2021 ▶ 48:32 Burt's Bees: Roxanne Quimby (2019)
Aug 23, 2021 positive
Disclosure
Burt's Bees scaled without spending money on conventional advertising
“I've heard even that 25 cents of every dollar goes into advertising, so we didn't have that expense because we weren't advertising.”
Roxanne Quimby Aug 23, 2021 ▶ 43:48 Burt's Bees: Roxanne Quimby (2019)
Aug 23, 2021
Assertion Supported
Quimby apprenticed with Burt Shavitz hauling honey for a summer
“So, I followed him around for a summer as an apprentice, and did a lot of the heavy work, hauling supers of honey around, extracting. I learned all about the bees, and I got to work with Bert.”
Roxanne Quimby Aug 23, 2021 ▶ 14:35 Burt's Bees: Roxanne Quimby (2019)
Aug 23, 2021
Disclosure
Quimby set $1M sales target after hitting initial $20K goal
“My original goal was 20,000 dollars in sales, and then when that goal was achieved, then I set another goal of a million dollars in sales by the time my kids graduated from high school.”
Roxanne Quimby Aug 23, 2021 ▶ 20:53 Burt's Bees: Roxanne Quimby (2019)
Aug 23, 2021 neutral
Disclosure
Quimby handed Burt's Bees to executives to avoid big box retail
“Going to big box and drugstore chains didn't seem very exciting or creative to me, but it was clearly the next step. So I felt like it was time to turn it over to the professionals.”
Roxanne Quimby Aug 23, 2021 ▶ 42:09 Burt's Bees: Roxanne Quimby (2019)
Aug 23, 2021 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Burt's Bees outgrew 50 hives and bought beeswax externally
“We had 50 hives, which was fine for a few years, and then we didn't produce enough ourselves, so we ended up buying other people's beeswax.”
Roxanne Quimby Aug 23, 2021 ▶ 23:02 Burt's Bees: Roxanne Quimby (2019)
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