The house that Mary Kay built is a thing of beauty. From the street, it looks like an ordinary warehouse. But, when you go through the doors of the Mary Kay world headquarters building and into the production center it is a thing of wonder.
Machines whir and hum as a bouquet of colors splash through shiny silver metal machines that fill and package thousands of beauty products every hour.
The Dallas manufacturing facility is responsible for 70-percent of its product lines and the numbers are staggering.
“We produce over 200 million items in this manufacturing facility and that represents over 200 unique products,” said Yvette Franco, Vice President of U.S. Marketing for Mary Kay.
The raw lab is where skin creams, lipsticks and fragrances are born.
“In this lab we are evaluating all the ingredients that are coming into Mary Kay’s warehouse,” said Mary Kay Skin Care Scientist Dr. Michelle Hines.
“The science is everything in our products,” Hines said.
Dr. Hines says it can three to five years of research and development before a product hits the market and the Mary Kay labs do about 300-thousand test a year.
“If it’s a skin care innovation we’re looking at the biology behind the skin,” said Hines.
Once the formula is just right the beauty product heads to production. The lipstick line is pretty impressive. The machines are running 24 hours a day six days a week. In a typical 12 hour shift the assembly line pumps out more than 30-thousand lipsticks.
The mascara line produces six thousand tubes an hour.
With $2.5 billion in annual sales, Mary Kay’s production palace is state of the art from the science to the sealed box.
Source: the33tv.com
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