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Company: Mary Kay Inc., Addison, TX
Company Description: One of the original glass ceiling breakers, Mary Kay Ash founded her beauty company more than 58 years ago with three goals: develop rewarding opportunities for women, offer irresistible products, and make the world a better place. That dream has blossomed into a multibillion-dollar company with millions of independent sales force members in nearly 40 countries.
Nomination Category: COVID-19 Response Categories
Nomination Sub Category: Most Valuable Product
 Nomination Title: Mary Kay® Hand Sanitizer
- Which will you submit for your nomination in this category, a video of up to five (5) minutes in length about the nominated new product, OR an essay of up to 350 words? (Choose one):
An essay of up to 350 words
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In March 2020, Mary Kay Inc. announced the company would dedicate part of its global supply chain and manufacturing capabilities to producing much-needed hand sanitizer. Pivoting quickly to manufacture hand sanitizer for the first time, going from concept to execution in a week. That’s our fastest development time, ever.
HAND SANITIZER DISTRIBUTED AROUND THE WORLD
In an effort to help slow the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and support frontline workers, Mary Kay directly shipped more than 650,000 bottles of donated hand sanitizer to over 2,000 organizations around the world.
- Hand sanitizer was donated within the U.S. to 20 healthcare systems and 1,000 hospitals, with a combined over 1.5 million staff, physicians, and frontline responders. In top ten hardest hit cities in the U.S., Mary Kay shipped hand sanitizer to a minimum of one healthcare system and hospital for each city.
- Emergency relief effort between the Personal Care Products Council (PCPC) and Feeding America (FA) is a strategic collaboration to help address the COVID-19 crisis facing our country and encourage its members to support FA’s Emergency Relief Fund via direct donations of essential personal care products.
- 75,000 units of hand sanitizer were donated to the Indian Health Service (IHS), an operating division within the US Department of Health and Human Services.
- In Georgia, Mary Kay donated more than 20,000 hand sanitizer units to The African American Association of Georgia.
Giving back is intrinsic to Mary Kay. Embracing the change brought about by the pandemic has resulted in the largest global relief effort in Mary Kay history. And in the midst of a crisis, we expanded our mission from “Enriching Women’s Lives” to “Supporting All Lives However We Can”.
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