Apple adds Avon’s Andrea Jung to board

January 08th, 2008 | Category: Insiders, Apple

Apple, Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has wooed Avon Products, Inc. (NYSE: AVP) CEO Andrea Jung to its board of directors, giving the Apple board a count of eight members as of January 2008. At that point in day, that really does assemble sense for Apple and the decision is a great one. Here’s why.

Jung, who has been with Avon for by 11 years, is deeply entrenched into

how direct sales and marketing strategies apply to women. Although Apple’s iPod has been geek-lust for many teenage boys and 20-somethings (among other demographics), the marketing of the iPod has nearly always involved women in some mold.

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Original post by Brian White

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