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On December 9th CEW (UK) was delighted to welcome Marcia Kilgore as their Guest Mentor.

Marcia Kilgore is one of the beauty industry’s heaviest hitters. She moved to New York City with $300 in her pocket and, after working as a personal trainer to put herself through University and then ‘beauty school’, founded the revolutionary Bliss Spa group in 1996. Kilgore has often been credited with single-handedly igniting the day spa boom of the late nineties.
Having sold Bliss twice, first a majority stake to LVMH, in 1999, and then the final shares to the behemoth Starwood Hotel Group in 2004, the now 41-year-old Kilgore remains an entrepreneur at heart.
In August 2006, she launched Soap & Glory, exclusively at Harvey Nichols, and rolled out nationwide into Boots stores in September of that year. 
Kilgore’s injection of fun and entertainment into her products, and the philosophy that ‘you shouldn’t have to spend an arm and a leg to moisturise one’, is the key to Soap & Glory’s global expansion and appeal. In the two short years since its launch it has grown into another nice 'little big business' for Kilgore and has won numerous industry awards. In October 2009, Marcia revealed the highly anticipated Soap & Glory for Men.
Kilgore’s first foray out of the cosmetics arena, the FitFlop (the flip flop with a gym built-in™) launched in May 2007 is taking the functional footwear industry by storm and has now sold over 4 million pairs in 30 countries.
All signs suggest that Marcia, a woman who once said her biggest fear was that she might be branded a ‘one hit wonder’ has a little less to worry about.

Marcia gave a  fascinating, informative and truly inspirational presentation.

CEW (UK)’s Mentoring Series  - where leading women offer insights into beauty industry issues and inspiration for professional growth.

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