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Dingdong. Avon, the world's largest direct seller of beauty products, is calling on teens like Prickett to peddle Mark, a new line targeted at women ages 16 to 24. Remarkably, it's the first time in Avon's 117-year history that the $6 billion company has launched a major youth movement. Until now, the cosmetics giant's core customer has been 35 or older. "We want to capture a younger customer, bring in new reps and create a new global youth brand," says Deborah I. Fine, president of Avon Future, the division that's launching Mark...
...they want--say, a concealer and lip gloss--and clip them together in a single piece that they can tuck in a pocket. "My customers are really excited about the products," says Jenny Powell, 19, a Mark rep in New Ulm, Minn., whose mom is a 17-year Avon seller...
...adamantly disputes. Since the book's English-language release, "Khan" has revealed that his real name is Shah Mohammed Rais, has denounced Seierstad for abusing his hospitality and distorting his family life, and is threatening to sue her for libel. Seierstad, whose book has become Norway's biggest nonfiction seller ever, stands by her account of the Khan clan. Whatever the truth, it's not hard to see why her searingly powerful indictment has so shaken the Khans. At one point in the book, appalled by what she regards as their unquestioning acceptance of male superiority, she fumes, "I have...
...loose, those eating out in the Square are scorning scones and turning down tortillas in favor of sugar-free snacks and bread-free sandwich meat. According to the Harvard COOP, the South Beach Diet and Dr. Atkins New Diet Revolution are numbers 2 and 3 on the campus best-seller list. Popular Square eateries are also catering to the demand...
...would those myriad goods we order reach us without cardboard boxes? Although e-commerce accounts for only a fraction of cardboard-box sales, it is a very fast-growing fraction and likely a big part of cardboard's future. The reason is plain: 10 copies of a best seller can be shipped from a publisher to a bookstore in a single box. But 10 individuals buying the book from Amazon require 10 cardboard boxes. Online purchases by U.S. consumers surged 48% last year, to $76 billion...