A Dallas finance firm backed a competitor after a failed buyout
Bobbi Brown · Bobbi Brown Cosmetics: Bobbi Brown · Sep 17, 2018 · at 31:58
Bobbi Brown recounts early buyout offers and copycat competitors before Estée Lauder acquired Bobbi Brown Cosmetics in 1995.
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“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.”
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