Mary Kay Ash
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Mary Kay Ash (May 12, 1918 – November 22, 2001) was an American businesswoman and the founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics, Inc.
Early life
Mary Kay Ash, born Mary Kathlyn Wagner in Hot Wells, Texas, was Edward Alexander and Lula Vember Hastings Wagner's daughter. Her mother was trained as a nurse and later became a restauranteur in Houston. Ash went to Dow Elementary School and Reagan High School in Houston and graduated in 1934.
At the age of 17, Ash married Ben Rogers. Ben Jr., Marylin Reed, and Richard Rogers had three children. She sold books from door to door when her husband was deployed in World War II. They divorced after her husband's return to prison in 1945. She married Mary C. Crowley, the Home Interiors and Gifts founder, later in life.
Career
In 1939, Ash started working for Stanley Home Products. Ash retired in 1963 and planned to write a book to assist women in industry after being rejected for a promotion in favour of a man she had not prepared. Mary Kay Ash and her new husband, George Hallenbeck, decided to start Mary Kay Cosmetics in the summer of 1963. The book turned into a company plan for her dream company. However, George died of a heart attack just one month before Mary Kay and George started Beauty by Mary Kay, which was then unknown. Ash started Mary Kay Cosmetics one month after George's death on September 13, 1963, when she was 45 years old with a $5,000 investment from her oldest son, Ben Rogers Jr., and with her teenage son, Richard Rogers, taking her late husband's place. In Dallas, the company's first storefront business, "Beauty By Mary Kay," was launched. With nine saleswomen signed up, they had a five-hundred-square-foot storefront. Stanley, Tupperware, and others used the same "house party" model. A Mary Kay representative would invite her acquaintances over for free facials and then pitch the items. Profits poured in every year, with double-digit growth expected.