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About this episode

In 1992, 18 months after finishing high school, Poppy King set up Poppy Industries. Through her company she sold her own brand of lipstick, and within three years, her business had grown into a multi-million dollar company. She quickly became known as the ‘Lipstick Queen’. In 2002 Poppy Industries was sold to Estee Lauder and and Poppy moved to New York to work fulltime for Eastee Lauder. Now she has returned to running her own company, this time called Lipstick Queen. She has also just released her first book, Lessons of a Lipstick Queen: Finding and Developing the Great Idea That Can Change Your Life, a guide to building a business and the lessons that will help you along the way. For your chance to win a copy of this book click here.

• Release Date

  Jul 22, 2009

• Runtime

  00:58