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Entrepreneurial sales strategies : Namaste Laboratories pursues new markets for hair care products / Cheryl Mayberry-McKissack & Tracey Robinson-English.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: [London] : SAGE, 2016Description: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour)Content type:
  • text
  • still image
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781473970243 (ebook) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 658.81 23
Online resources: The Namaste case is a story of how Kellogg alumni couple Gary and Denise Gardner grow their Namaste branded hair care line from production at the family's kitchen table into a formidable {dollar}80 million empire within a 14-year period. The Gardners come from a longtime hair-care business lineage, the Soft Sheen dynasty, started by Gary's father decades earlier. Soft Sheen was ultimately sold to hair care giant L'Oreal for over {dollar}100 million. The Gardners claim Namaste's growth occurred through listening to the needs and desires of customers for healing hair care products that reminded them of nourishing household remedies. This case study discusses this topic.
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Originally Published in: Mayberry-McKissack, C., & Robinson-English, T. (2010). Entrepreneurial Sales Strategies: Namaste Laboratories Pursues New Markets for Hair Care Products. 5-310-505. Evanston, IL: Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.

The Namaste case is a story of how Kellogg alumni couple Gary and Denise Gardner grow their Namaste branded hair care line from production at the family's kitchen table into a formidable {dollar}80 million empire within a 14-year period. The Gardners come from a longtime hair-care business lineage, the Soft Sheen dynasty, started by Gary's father decades earlier. Soft Sheen was ultimately sold to hair care giant L'Oreal for over {dollar}100 million. The Gardners claim Namaste's growth occurred through listening to the needs and desires of customers for healing hair care products that reminded them of nourishing household remedies. This case study discusses this topic.

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