American cosmetic and gift company Avon Products, Inc. is known for its eye-catching, digest-sized catalogs shimmering with fresh-faced models wearing reasonably priced makeup and advertising costume jewelry, colognes, and an array of other items....

Avon Products, Inc. NYSE: AVP is a US cosmetics, perfume and toy seller with markets in over 135 countries across the world and sales of $8.1 billion worldwide as of 2005. Traditionally a direct marketing company, Avon's fastest growing markets...

Avon In Takeover Rumour Wall Street talk of a takeover bid for Avon Products, the major US cosmetics and jewellery corporation, has increased with the news that billionaire investor Mr. Irwin Jacobs and the Amway Corporation have formed a partnership which purchased 10.3...

Outstanding trading results for fiscal 1990 have been reported by Avon Products inc., with income from continuing operations up by 28 per cent on a 5 per cent sales increase. Total corporate net turnover rose from $3,299.6 million to $3,453.8 million while debt...

Avon Products Inc. reported on Tuesday its fourth-quarter profit edged up from a year ago as the beauty products company struggled with restructuring costs.The direct seller of cosmetics and other beauty products said it earned $184.1 million, or 41 cents per share, for the three-month...

AMR Corp., the parent of American Airlines, is hiring International Business Machines Corp. to perform some of its personnel chores in a $217 million deal that will run for 7 1/2 years, the companies said Friday.AMR expects that hiring an outside firm to do the...

Provides a business case study of Avon and its chief strategist Andrea Jung. Projects the company's future expansion plans.