| Estée Lauder Brand Promotes Thia Breen To President, Estée Lauder Americas And Global Business Development |
| August 11, 2006 NEW YORK - John Demsey, Group President, The Estée Lauder
Companies (NYSE: EL), today announced the promotion of Thia Breen to President,
Estée Lauder Americas and Global Business Development, a new position.
This new role gives Ms. Breen responsibility for the international business, financial
control, and oversight of the new launch management function of the flagship Estée
Lauder brand, in addition to her current oversight of the Americas business. Ms.
Breen will assume her new role immediately and will report to John Demsey.
"Thia is the perfect partner," said John Demsey. "Our international business is critical to Estée Lauder's growth moving forward and I am thrilled to extend Thia's vast experience in sales, applied marketing and retailing to Asia and Europe. Thia's promotion is a natural extension of her leadership of the Americas business over the last 18 months." Ms. Breen has spent the majority of her career at The Estée Lauder Companies, most recently serving as President, Americas, Estée Lauder since January 2005. She began her Estée Lauder Companies' career in 1977, when she joined Clinique as an Account Executive in Los Angeles. In 1985 she was named National Sales Manager, Aramis and in 1992 she was appointed the first National Sales Manager for Origins where, as a member of the founding team, she helped to establish the unique profile of that brand. Ms. Breen returned to Clinique in 1996 as Senior Vice President, National Sales Manager, building a sales team that brought Clinique to the number one position in cosmetics in USA department store distribution. In 2001 she was named Senior Vice President, General Manager, Clinique North America. Ms. Breen briefly left the company in 2002 and served as Senior Vice President, Cosmetics, Federated Merchandising Group, where she oversaw the Federated Department Store cosmetics business. The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. is one of the world's leading manufacturers and marketers of quality skin care, makeup, fragrance and hair care products. The Company's products are sold in over 130 countries and territories under well-recognized brand names, including Estée Lauder, Aramis, Clinique, Prescriptives, Origins, M·A·C, Bobbi Brown, Tommy Hilfiger, La Mer, Donna Karan, Aveda, Jo Malone, Bumble and bumble, Darphin, Michael Kors, Rodan + Fields, American Beauty, Flirt!, Good Skin(TM), Donald Trump the Fragrance, Grassroots, Sean John, Missoni and Daisy Fuentes. Contact: Media Relations: Investor Relations: |
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