Interview with Burt's Bees
founder, Roxanne Quimby

Burt's Bees founder, Roxanne Quimby, talks with HILARY Magazine about her company's natural success

By Heather Riccio and Hilary Rowland

      The Burt's Bees line of natural skin and body products have been a long-time favorite, yet not many people know the unique story of how the company was started. Burt's Bees has been in business since the early 1980's.

Co-founder Roxanne Quimby was a divorced mother of twins living in central Maine when she and Burt started Burt's Bees. She'd been let go from her last three part-time waitressing jobs and had been buying low and selling high at yard sales and flea markets, which brought in about $150 a week during good weather.

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