Angela Cretu is CEO of Avon, responsible for the business outside of Latin America and for the oversight of the Avon brand globally. Prior to her CEO appointment in January 2020, Angela was General Manager of Avon Central Europe, where she led a mix of 19 mature and emerging countries, and was responsible for growing our share in Central Europe through a competitive Representative, customer and employee value proposition, while retaining the highest profitability.
She joined Avon 20 years ago following several sales roles in FMCG industry, and built up a strong career from Sales Manager and Country Lead, to Vice President of Global Business Model Innovation at the New York headquarters. Angela has also held positions as General Manager of three out of six Avon clusters in the last decade: Eastern Europe, Turkey, Middle East and Africa and Central Europe.
Angela graduated from The Academy of Economic Studies, Economic Cybernetics, Statistics and Informatics in Bucharest. She also completed an executive education programme at the London Business School.
She is the proud mum to her nine-year-old son, and a lucky friend of many amazing people that she has met in her international journey with Avon. She is also a keen fitness fan.
is CEO of Avon, responsible for the business outside of Latin America and for the oversight of the Avon brand globally. Prior to her CEO appointment in January 2020, Angela was General Manager of Avon Central Europe, where she led a mix of 19 mature and emerging countries, and was responsible for growing our share in Central Europe through a competitive Representative, customer and employee value proposition, while retaining the highest profitability.
She joined Avon 20 years ago following several sales roles in FMCG industry, and built up a strong career from Sales Manager and Country Lead, to Vice President of Global Business Model Innovation at the New York headquarters. Angela has also held positions as General Manager of three out of six Avon clusters in the last decade: Eastern Europe, Turkey, Middle East and Africa and Central Europe.
Angela graduated from The Academy of Economic Studies, Economic Cybernetics, Statistics and Informatics in Bucharest. She also completed an executive education programme at the London Business School.
She is the proud mum to her nine-year-old son, and a lucky friend of many amazing people that she has met in her international journey with Avon. She is also a keen fitness fan.
Avon Products, Inc, known as Avon, is an American international manufacturer and direct selling company in beauty, household, and personal care categories. Avon had annual sales of $10.0 billion worldwide in 2013.
It is the fifth-largest beauty company and second largest direct selling enterprise in the world, with 6.4 million representatives.[3] Avon Products is a multi-level marketing company.[4] The company's CEO is Sherilyn S. McCoy, who was appointed to that position in April 2012.[5] The former CEO, Andrea Jung, became the executive chairman of the board. Recently, Avon has struggled with the global sales falling for 5 straight years and North American revenues falling 18% in 2014.[6]
