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Article: Jung, Andrea
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- Encyclopedia of World Biography
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Andrea Jung
Andrea Jung (born 1959) went from being a lackluster student to attending the Ivy League's Prince-
ton University, and went on to become the CEO of Avon Products.
Institutional Investor
wrote of Jung, "How many other chief executives embody their companies the way Andrea Jung does? Sleek, stylishly turned out, with signature pearl choker and mane of sable hair, she is confident and assertive, the perfect image for her newly invigorated Avon Products. Jung is the first female CEO at a cosmetics company who wasn't also its founder." Jung took the failing company out of the depths of marketing oblivion into a world of young, hip makeup products.
Born in Toronto
Jung was ...
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Article: AVON NAMES ANDREA JUNG CHAIRMAN.(Avon ...
WWD;
September 7, 2001 ;
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...NEW YORK -- Andrea Jung, chief executive officer of Avon Products Inc. since November 1999, added the title of chairman Thursday. She succeeds Stanley C. Gault, who had been nonexecutive chairman ...
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