Queen Bee: Roxanne Quimby, Burt's Bees, and Her Quest for a New National Park, by Phyllis Austin
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How did she navigate the world of venture capitalists and investment bankers to engineer the sale of her company and reap a personal fortune? And what does her subsequent odyssey to buy and donate a new national park in Maine’s north woods―thus repaying what she regards as the “harmonic debt to the planet” she incurred by manufacturing beauty products―tell us about America and the American dream? Queen Bee is a fascinating biography of a fascinating woman, her game-changing skin-care company, and the quest to create a national park in the north woods.
- A richly textured portrait of the woman who built Burt’s Bees from nothing and altered the global business of skin care.
- A tightly woven story of the paper-industry exodus, the giant clearance sale of the north woods, the downward spiral of paper-company towns, and the battle for a new national park.
- A tale of the American Dream in action― what it can do for the fortunate few who are in the right place at the right time with wits and determination, and what it can do to the unfortunate many who find themselves on the wrong side of “creative destruction.”
Queen Bee: Roxanne Quimby, Burt's Bees, and Her Quest for a New National Park, by Phyllis Austin - Amazon Sales Rank: #941320 in Books
- Brand: Austin, Phyllis
- Published on: 2015-06-15
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.40" h x 1.30" w x 6.40" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 384 pages
Queen Bee: Roxanne Quimby, Burt's Bees, and Her Quest for a New National Park, by Phyllis Austin Review "It's quite a story. For more than half her life, Roxanne Quimby lived a minimalist life, off the grid, with none of the comforts most of us take for granted. For the second half of her life, Quimby has been a study in contrasts, moving from poverty to great wealth. Quimby considers herself an artist, but she is one of the nation's most successful businesswomen. She is a conservationist, but she also is reviled by many individuals and groups that trumpet the conservation cause in Maine. Without doubt, Quimby is our state's most controversial woman. And all because she wants to create a 70,000-acre national park in the North Woods, adjacent to Baxter State Park...Without question, Quimby is to be admired for building a small business, Burt's Bees, into a huge company that she sold for hundreds of millions of dollars. We value business people and stories like this, so she deserves a lot of credit and praise for this part of her life...She was very clearly in charge, from start to finish, going through many managers and workers, sometimes managing with Tarot cards and intuition. There's a lesson here for our political and business leaders, too, as Quimby moved her business to North Carolina when Maine's state government failed to treat her fairly or work effectively with her to grow her business. But that's not the controversial part of her life...Austin captures Quimby in the book's Epilogue: 'As a Thoreau acolyte, she wants to pay her dues to nature for having made her money manufacturing consumer goods.'" --George Smith, centralmaine.com 5/27/2015
From the Inside Flap Queen Bee is an intimate portrait of Roxanne Quimby and a masterful history of the north woods. It's the story of a young woman who fled a domineering father, a rootless childhood, and suburban suffocation. She and her young man and their dog drove cross-country to San Francisco in 1970 looking for a new way of being in the world. Five years later they spent their meager savings on cheap land in Maine and joined the homesteading movement. It's the story of a single mother and aspiring artist weighed down by back-to-the-land poverty. Tired of being cold, sick of hauling water and working dead-end jobs, she met a reclusive beekeeper and started making beeswax candles for craft fairs. Then she developed a beeswax lip balm, and what happened next seems plausible only in hindsight. It's the story of a businesswoman who created the world's leading manufacturer of natural skin-care products from her creative imagination. With no business background, no capital, no investors, and no line of credit, she clawed her way to front-of-store displays in America's top retailers. She was a master of product creation and branding, a master of marketing. She hit the surging interest in natural products at exactly the right time, and she had the smarts to recognize it and the determination to capitalize. She reinvented her company again and again, asking no quarter and giving none, and she sold Burt's Bees for several hundred million dollars after twenty years of single-minded effort. And it's the story of a retired, wealthy capitalist who feels called to restore some portion of the north woods wilderness and create a new national park. Pursuing her new mission with her old determination, she has run into nail-spitting opposition from the paper industry's dying order. Queen Bee is the multifaceted story only Phyllis Austin, with her thirty years of north woods reporting and her two years of direct access to Roxanne Quimby, could have written.
About the Author Journalist Phyllis Austin (Brunswick, Maine) has covered environmental and forestland issues in Maine for more than 30 years, including many years at the Maine Times. Her books include Queen Bee: Roxanne Quimby, Burt's Bees and her Quest for a New National Park, On Wilderness and Wilderness Partners.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful. Bee-utiful Story! By Charles Friedman Having served as Burt's Bees first Formulation Chemist and Scientific Director, and as a direct report to founder Roxanne Quimby, I experienced nine years of this improbable rags to riches account in the heart of the journey.I applaud author Phyllis Austin's Herculean effort researching and coalescing all the facts, and I can personally attest to many.The reader will experience a rare, remarkable and true tale.Chuck FriedmanBurt's Bees Formulation Chemist & Scientific Director 1994-2003
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Must read By SAChipman Love this book. As a native of southern Maine and growing up in a mill town, I learned a lot about Great Northern Paper, the Maine woods and the history and future of that region. I was surprised and enlightened by the political negativity of what would be a wonderful thing - a north woods National Park.I was intrigued by Phyllis Austin's ability to write a thorough biography of Roxanne's rags to riches story, covering her history, her entrepreneurship, and her tenacity. Phyllis Austin is an amazing writer. I couldn't stop reading it.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Very thorough account of Quimby and Burt's Bees By Dad5 As a long-time regular visitor to the north woods of Maine, and as a professor of finance and entrepreneurship I’ve followed the Roxanne Quimby and Burt’s Bees stories for many years. Based on “Queen Bee” I’ve come to realize that the business cases and numerous magazine articles I’ve read over the years have greatly over-simplified Quimby’s story. Author Phyllis Austin does a thorough job of taking the reader through the development of Burt’s Bees and shows that the path to success was not quite as linear as other readings might have you believe.Austin also does a thorough job of examining Quimby’s land acquisitions in northern Maine and her efforts to develop a national park adjoining Baxter State Park. As a recreational visitor to this part of the state, I appreciate the issue of open access to logging land and can empathize with the concerns of local Mainers as Quimby moved to limit access to her ever-increasing acreage in the area.My only critiques of the book are threefold. First, Austin tends to write as an investigative reporter, which results in extraneous detail in a number of sections of the book; for example, tracing Quimby’s heritage back to 1638, but this section is easy enough to skim or skip entirely. I also found myself reading lightly in a few other sections.My second critique is the absence of any photos or maps (except for a few maps on the very last few pages). The chapters each begin with stock photos of Maine images, but nothing specific to Quimby or Burt’s Bees. In my entrepreneurship course, I use quite a few images from a variety of sources, which add some flavor to the narrative. The only photo in the book of Quimby is on the cover and there are no photos of Burt, their various business locations, or the company’s products. The absence of maps was particularly notable in the section on Quimby’s land acquisitions. The significance of certain land parcels were a bit unclear in the absence of relevant maps.Finally, the reader should note this is the story of Roxanne Quimby and not (to the extent they can be separated) the story of Burt Shavitz. As the author notes, Shavitz did not agree to be interviewed for the book and so minimal attention is provided regarding his story.All in all, however, if the story of Burt’s Bees is one in which you have an interest, this book adds a fair amount of heft to the story that is not readily available elsewhere.
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