From Lind L – Hello Mr. Pop History. My sister and her daughter sell May Kay products and do you, or could you give a little history on her company?

Mr. Pop History – She was born Mary Kathlyn Wagner and founded Mary Kay back in 1963. She parlayed $5,000 into a $billion company. Her biggest competitor was Avon – which was and still is the largest direct-sales cosmetics firm. The company created an award system designed for women with prizes such as mink coats, diamond rings and the famous pink Cadillacs. Pink was Mary Kay – as she once owned a 19,000-square-foot pink mansion.

Mary Kay Ash retired from the company in 1987 and passed away in 2001 at the age of 83.