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L’ORÉAL USA Hones Role Models L’Oréal USA hosted 14 high school and 32 college students at its Fifth Avenue headquarters during spring break in support of the New York Coalition of One Hundred Black Women’s Role Model Program. The non-profit’s annual initiative allows participants to shadow professionals over the course of a week to learn practical workplace skills. “Today, through our multi-year partnership, we are proud to have contributed more than $300,000 to the Role Model program including more than $15,000 in scholarships awarded annually to program participants,” said Antoinette Hamilton, L’Oréal USA’s assistant vice president of diversity and L’Oréal USA’s Antoinette Hamilton addresses student participants. inclusion. The 2013 program featured workshops on: “Dining L’Oréal,” “Keeping It Real: The Politics of Work and Life,” Etiquette,” “Dressing Your Way to Succsess,” “Money and “Social Networking.” Management,” skin and hair care, “The World of Work at
REDBOOK Fêtes MVP Winners
Better Homes and Gardens Names Best New Products
REDBOOK’s Jill Herzig, Jayne Jamison and Mary Morgan (r.) with Tiffani Thiessen.
BrandSpark’s Robert Levy, Caudalie’s Carole Silverman, Stephanie Boccuzza of Shop PR, Katie Heelon of Devries Global, P&G’s Bessie Zhang and Ellen Miller of Better Homes and Gardens.
REDBOOK held its annual MVP Awards breakfast honoring the year’s best new beauty products at A Voce on May 21. Editor-in-chief Jill Herzig hosted the awards with vice president/publishing director Jayne Jamison, and special guest, actress Tiffani Thiessen. The event also marked outgoing vice president/publisher and chief revenue officer Mary Morgan’s last, before she leaves New York and moves to Cape Cod. Guests at the awards breakfast included representatives from the winning brands including L’Oréal, Unilever, and Neutrogena among others, as well as top dermatologists, celebrity makeup artists, and hairstylists. The full list of winners is featured in the June issue and online at http://www.redbookmag.com/mvpawards. J U NE 2 0 1 3 /
On May 14, the Better Homes and Gardens Best New Product Awards welcomed leading consumer packaged marketers and PR professionals to the Andaz Hotel to celebrate the 5th annual Best New Product Award winners. Sixty-two winning products were chosen directly by more than 77,500 consumers who participated in an extensive nationwide survey, the American Shopper Study. Categories included: Beauty, Food and Beverage, Health and Personal Care, and Household. The presentation was hosted by Jim Carr, EVP and president of Better Homes and Gardens, and Robert Levy, president of BrandSpark International and founder of the Best New Product Awards. BF
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