esigned. Jung, with very little operating
experience under her belt, was suddenly running a company with millions
of independent sales reps and operations in 137 countries. Now, with the
need to reconcile the intersection of the Internet's explosive growth with
the company's Old Economy direct-sales business model, Jung is faced with
what is shaping up to be one of Corporate America's toughest consumer-products
For a marketer who cut her teeth in high-end fashion at ritzy retailers
like I. Magnin and Neiman Marcus, reinventing a dowdy megabrand like Avon
would seem an unlikely career high. Precocious from the start, Jung was
second-in-command at I. Magnin & Co. before she was 30 year
s old. At 32 she was in charge of all women's apparel for Neiman Marcus
and regularly jetted to Europe for the runway shows. Two years later, in
1993, Jung married Bloomingdale's CEO, Michael Gould, 15 years her senior,
left her job at Neiman Marcus in Dallas, and moved to Manhattan.
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