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August 2004

A Family of Products

Photograph by Anne Knudsen
Leonard Lauder,
Chairman, Estee Lauder Companies

PHOTOGRAPH BY ANNE KNUDSEN

Don't tell Leonard Lauder he ran the family business. "Our credo is we're not a family business—we're a family in business," the longtime chairman of Estee Lauder Companies told a View from the Top audience in March.

With 19 brands sold in more than 130 countries, the company is one of the world's leading manufacturers and marketers of prestige-line beauty products, The brands—Clinique, Aveda, Tommy Hilfiger, among them—are seldom linked in consumers' minds.

"I had the idea in 1968: Let's put different brands in competition," Lauder said. "Everyone shops at a different counter and thinks they're dealing with individual entities. Talk about sibling rivalry!"


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