Beauty costs: How do you create a beauty empire? With Marcia Kilgore
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Perhaps you have heard of Marcia Kilgore, or maybe not, but if you’re a woman, a beauty junkie, or just love shoes, you are likely to have heard of one of the five multi-million dollar companies that she has launched over the last two decades.
Marcia is the brains behind the beauty brand BlissSpa, the spa brand Soap&Glory, shoe phenomenon FitFlop, bath and body range Soaper Duper and most recently, Beauty Pie - an affordable luxury make-up and skincare range.
She tells us why she became a serial entrepreneur, and how her career started in a one bedroom-apartment in New York City.
Producer and presenter: Izzy Greenfield
(Image: Marcia Kilgore. Credit: Getty Images)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Business Daily. This week we're looking at the business of beauty in our beauty cost series. |
| 0:08.0 | Today, how do you create a beauty empire? |
| 0:14.2 | It's possible you've heard of Marcia Kilgall. I am so fabulous this morning. |
| 0:19.0 | Maybe not, but if you're a woman, a beauty junkie or just love shoes, you've likely heard of one of the five, yes, five multi-million dollar companies that she's launched over the last two decades. |
| 0:30.6 | If it's a box of beauty pie products that costs, you know, a quarter of what they would normally spend at retail. I do just love making women |
| 0:38.8 | happy. In this episode, we'll hear why she became a serial entrepreneur and how her career |
| 0:44.8 | started in a one-bedroom apartment in New York City. I think, how is this possible that, |
| 0:50.0 | you know, Carrie Fisher was letting me give her a facial? All of those other A-List stars were letting me do their personal training as well, |
| 0:57.3 | but it is a little bit different when you start to, you know, |
| 0:59.8 | rub cream and acid on someone's face. |
| 1:01.9 | That's Business Daily from the BBC. |
| 1:06.3 | Marcia is the brains behind the beauty brand Bliss Spa, |
| 1:09.6 | the spa brand soap and glory, shoe phenomenon |
| 1:12.0 | fitflop, bath and body range so per duper, and most recently Beauty Pie, an affordable luxury |
| 1:17.6 | makeup and skincare range. With this kind of success, you might assume that Marcia came from a wealthy |
| 1:23.1 | background, or that her parents were in the business world. Maybe she has multiple degrees, but her reality |
| 1:29.0 | is the total opposite. I grew up in a really small town. Actually, first, I was born in a very |
| 1:34.1 | small town in Saskatchewan in Canada. I think there were probably a thousand people. And when I was |
| 1:39.8 | probably two or three, which of course I can't remember. My family moved to Calgary, which was |
| 1:44.6 | one province west. My father sold real estate and my mom was a homemaker. So when did a serial |
| 1:50.6 | entrepreneur from such a small town realize that she might want to be in the business world? |
| 1:56.1 | Marcia says a difficult time in her childhood probably shaped that ambition. Unfortunately, my father had brain cancer. |
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