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...alluring aroma when first sprayed on but then change or lose its scent altogether in an hour, unless manufacturers observe the strictest quality control. Product testing can be as grueling as in a factory making any other kind of goods. To be sure that makeup will withstand long wear, Revlon sometimes requires a woman to sit for hours in a room where the temperature is 90° F. and the humidity 100%; windshield wipers have to clear away the steam from the windows so that analysts can peer...
...covered with special emollients. The upper and lower lips of black women sometimes differ in color?slightly, but enough to require application of a special base to the relatively lighter lower lip if a lipstick is not to come out two different shades. To tap this market, Revlon three years ago brought out a line of Polished Ambers cosmetics?under the Revlon name rather than some specially invented one, as Bergerac proudly notes. He explains: "In doing it that way you do not discriminate. What we are saying is that black ladies are important enough...
...financial side of the business was often overlooked by the original entrepreneurial managers, who relied on high profit margins to cover up sloppiness. Under Charles Revson, Revlon ground out products in huge volumes, took long risks with new lines and often wound up getting piles of merchandise returned from stores. Many other cosmetics makers still do, but at Revlon, Bergerac has put in tight inventory controls and persuaded customers to pay bills more promptly. He figures that if the company were still being run the way it was when he arrived, it would have...
...borrow $350 million of additional capital to finance its operations and pay $35 million a year in interest. Saving that much, he says, permits Revlon to "take creative flyers" on some product lines that it otherwise would not introduce?Polished Ambers, for instance...
Some analysts and even company insiders wonder whether Revlon can maintain creativity in an atmosphere of tight control. Bergerac insists that it can. To him, creativity is not a matter of sitting around waiting for inspiration to strike, but of striving against deadlines to design products, packages and ads for carefully targeted markets...