Company I Keep

<p>In his<br>much-anticipated memoir <em>The Company I Keep: My Life in<br>Beauty</em> Chairman Emeritus and former CEO of The Estée Lauder<br>Companies Leonard A. Lauder shares the business and life lessons he learned as<br>well as the adventures he had while helping transform the mom-and-pop business<br>his mother founded in 1946 in the family kitchen into the beloved brand and<br>ultimately into the iconic global prestige beauty company it is today.</p><p>In its infancy in<br>the 1940s and 50s the company comprised a handful of products sold under a<br>single brand in just a few prestigious department stores across the United<br>States. Today The Estée Lauder Companies constitutes one of the world's<br>leading manufacturers and marketers of prestige skin care makeup fragrance<br>and hair care products. It comprises more than 25 brands whose products are<br>sold in over 150 countries and territories. This growth and success was led by<br>Leonard A. Lauder Estée Lauder's oldest son who envisioned and effected this<br>expansion during a remarkable 60-year tenure including leading the company as<br>CEO and Chairman.<br>In this captivating<br>personal account complete with great stories as only he can tell them Mr.<br>Lauder now known as The Estée Lauder Companies' Chief Teaching Officer<br>reflects on his childhood growing up during the Great Depression the vibrant decades of<br>the post-World War II boom and his work growing the company into the beauty<br>powerhouse it is today. Mr. Lauder pays loving tribute to his mother<br>Estée Lauder its eponymous founder and to the employees of the company both past and present while sharing inside<br>stories about the company including tales of cutthroat rivalry with Charles<br>Revson of Revlon and others. The book offers keen insights on honing ambition <br>leveraging success learning from mistakes and growing an international<br>company in an age of economic turbulence uncertainty and fierce competition.<br></p>