Young-Scrivner explained what she had done in readiness for her job. Wella, one of the world’s leading beauty companies with iconic brands including Wella Professional, Clairol, OPI, Nioxin and ghd, has an estimated 6,000 employees, serving more than 250,000 hair and nail salons in more than 100 countries. For many years after that, I didn’t eat anything strawberry.” “I didn’t quit, but I learned that if you want to do something that’s fun as a job, you should really understand what it means when you have to do it every day. You had to pick strawberries that weren’t perfect, every strawberry in the field,” she said. I used to go to the strawberry fields and think, ‘Wow, I could get paid doing something I love.’ It was a horrible experience because to make money, you didn’t just pick the best-quality strawberries. Young-Scrivner revealed her toughest job was when she was aged 12.
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It showed me that if you run a business, you get to create your own culture. We had a restaurant, we had a jade store and a video arcade. “When my family migrated over to the US, my dad worked for a shipping company and my mum was an accountant, but on the side they also had businesses. It didn’t work very well, but it was a fun exercise,” the Taiwan-born executive said. I would take little candies and dissolve them in water and put that in perfume bottles and sell it. Young-Scrivner told Reuters she knew she wanted to run a business from the age of 10. She started her career at PepsiCo where she held senior leadership roles in sales, marketing and general management during her 19-year tenure with the business,” the KKR statement added. Her leadership on digital and loyalty helped Starbucks’ operations across the globe to engage with its consumer in more meaningful ways.
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“Prior to Godiva, Ms Young-Scrivner spent seven years in a number of senior positions at Starbucks where she helped elevate the brand and customer experience while fuelling an innovation pipeline that led to double-digit growth. In her three-decade career, she has worked in more than 30 countries around the world. In addition to being the driving force behind Godiva’s social impact efforts to empower women, Ms Young-Scrivner also led the enhancement of Godiva’s digital experience, making it a critical component to the brand’s ecosystem,” KKR said in a statement. “Her tenure at Godiva is marked by accelerating growth with expansion into new channels and categories to make the iconic brand more accessible to consumers, while honouring the brand’s heritage. She joined Wella, founded in 1880 by Franz Ströher, from Godiva Chocolatier, where she had been CEO for three years.
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Young-Scrivner, 52, became CEO of the German-based Wella on 1 December 2020 following investment company KKR’s announcement in October last year that it had taken a controlling 60 per cent stake in the business. “Look at me, a little Chinese girl who couldn’t speak a stitch of English,right?” Annie Young-Scrivner told Reuters, adding that her recipe for success is simple: “Dream big, find your own destiny, take calculated risks, don’t be afraid of failure.” The new CEO of award-winning haircare company Wella wants to remind people with aspirations that nothing is impossible.