{"product_id":"9780062990945","title":"The Company I Keep : My Life in Beauty","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn his\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003emuch-anticipated memoir, The Company I Keep: My Life in\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBeauty, Chairman Emeritus and former CEO of The Estée Lauder\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCompanies Leonard A. Lauder shares the business and life lessons he learned as\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ewell as the adventures he had while helping transform the mom-and-pop business\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ehis mother founded in 1946 in the family kitchen into the beloved brand and\n\u003cbr\u003e\\nultimately into the iconic global prestige beauty company it is today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn its infancy in\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ethe 1940s and 50s, the company comprised a handful of products, sold under a\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003esingle brand in just a few prestigious department stores across the United\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eStates. Today, The Estée Lauder Companies constitutes one of the world's\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eleading manufacturers and marketers of prestige skin care, makeup, fragrance\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eand hair care products. It comprises more than 25 brands, whose products are\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003esold in over 150 countries and territories. This growth and success was led by\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLeonard A. Lauder, Estée Lauder's oldest son, who envisioned and effected this\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eexpansion during a remarkable 60-year tenure, including leading the company as\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCEO and Chairman.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this captivating\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003epersonal account complete with great stories as only he can tell them, Mr.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLauder, now known as The Estée Lauder Companies' \"Chief Teaching Officer,\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ereflects on his childhood, growing up during the Great Depression, the vibrant decades of\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ethe post-World War II boom, and his work growing the company into the beauty\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003epowerhouse it is today.  Mr. Lauder pays loving tribute to his mother\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEstée Lauder, its eponymous founder, and to the employees of the company, both past and present, while sharing inside\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003estories about the company, including tales of cutthroat rivalry with Charles\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRevson of Revlon and others. The book offers keen insights on honing ambition,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eleveraging success, learning from mistakes, and growing an international\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ecompany in an age of economic turbulence, uncertainty, and fierce competition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Business","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52929844904245,"sku":"EB_BM0500_L04-03_DUBAI","price":158.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0971\/7773\/1381\/files\/9780062990945-1.jpg?v=1789399451","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.ae\/ja\/products\/9780062990945","provider":"Books Kinokuniya UAE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}