Avon Calling!
Cosmetics Giant’s Move to Britain Quashes Project Fear
by Donna Rachel Edmunds 15 Mar 2016
Prime Minister David
Cameron’s efforts to keep Britain within the European
Union have been dealt another blow as the cosmetics giant Avon has announced plans to move its headquarters
to the UK despite the referendum on EU
membership.
Pro-Brexit campaigners welcomed the move as “great news
for Britain.” They say it demonstrates that Britain will not merely survive
outside the EU, but can thrive as an independent nation.
The 130 year old company, known for selling its products
door to door, sold much of its North American business to private investment
firm Cerberus
last year following falling sales in the country. Consequently, it now plans to
move its headquarters to the UK to focus on rebuilding the brand as part of a
three year plan to kick-start new growth. The company will also lose 2,500 of
its 28,300 employees worldwide in a bid to cut costs, the BBC has reported.
The news will be something of a disappointment for the
Prime Minister and his fellow ‘remain’ campaigners, who have been engaging in
‘Project Fear’ tactics designed to frighten the British people into voting
remain. Mr Cameron has been predicting dire economic consequences of a Brexit
for some weeks now, even going so far as to have civil servants in Downing
Street draft a letter to be signed by FTSE 100 CEOs. In the end, just a third of the
bosses agreed to put their name to it.
But for pro-Brexit campaigners, who have long insisted
that the British economy is powerful enough to stand alone, Avon’s move is a
vindication.
UKIP’s employment spokeswoman Jane Collins MEP called the
announcement “another blow to Project Fear and great news for Great Britain.”
She added: “We’ve had companies defy Mr Cameron and his
team of letter writers in 10 Downing Street by saying they will remain in the
UK if we vote to leave the EU but this is a new step as it’s a company moving
jobs here showing this country can thrive as an independent nation.
“Freed from the shackles of the EU and its rules and
regulations as well as the drive for a corporate tax base, we will see a
thriving economy and real pull factors to companies to base themselves in
Britain: a death knell to this lie of three million jobs being at risk should
we govern ourselves.”
Avon isn’t alone in showing faith in the British economy;
the announcement comes on the heels of the German exchange Deutsche Börse
making a bid for the London Stock Exchange – yesterday rumours
swirled that it may even raise its bid in an attempt to see off a
challenge by US rival Intercontinental Exchange – and less than a week after
the chief executive of Norway’s $830 billion sovereign wealth fund said that a
Brexit would not pose a
significant risk to their investments.
Yngve Slyngstad said: “We will continue to be a
significant investor in the UK at about the same level as we are today and
probably even increasing our investments there going forward no matter what
happens.”
Meanwhile, a CNBC poll found that 73 percent
of global Chief Financial Officers said that Brexit would make either no
difference or a positive difference to their chances of doing business with the
UK.
“The more David Cameron says that Brexit will trigger
some sort of economic Armageddon, the more developments in the business world
fly in his face,” said Liz Bilney, CEO of the Leave.EU campaign.
“While the Prime Minister threatens voters with years of
pain and uncertainty, Avon has shown that the UK will be a place to do business
despite the fact that we are on the verge of leaving the EU.
“The British public should follow the money.”
David Cameron
David Cameron is
the prime minister for the United Kingdom
(UK), and William J. Bratton is
his security adviser.
Note: William J. Bratton
is David Cameron’s security adviser,
and a member of the Homeland Security
Advisory Council.
William H. Webster
is the chair for the Homeland Security
Advisory Council, and an honorary director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank).
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank), and the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton
Foundation.
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, a member of the Bretton Woods Committee, a friend of Michael Douglas, Daisy M.
Soros’s brother-in-law, and was the chairman for the Foundation to
Promote Open Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Committee for Economic Development, and the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Michael P.C.
Carns was a director at the Atlantic
Council of the United States (think tank), and is a director at the Remington Outdoor Company.
Remington
Outdoor Company is owned by Cerberus
Capital Management L.P.
Stephen A.
Feinberg is the CEO for Cerberus
Capital Management L.P., and Martin
Feinberg’s son.
Martin Feinberg
is Stephen A. Feinberg’s father, and
a Newtown (CT) resident.
Newtown (CT) is
the location of the 2012 massacre at
Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Larry
Klane was a group leader for Cerberus
Capital Management L.P., and is a member of the Bretton Woods Committee.
George P. Shultz is
a member of the Bretton Woods Committee,
an honorary director at the Atlantic
Council of the United States (think tank), and was a trustee at the Committee for Economic Development.
Paula
Stern is a member of the Bretton
Woods Committee, a director at Avon
Products, Inc., a trustee at the Committee
for Economic Development, and a trustee at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank).
Stuart E.
Eizenstat is a director at the Atlantic
Council of the United States (think tank), was a trustee at the Committee for Economic Development, and
a U.S. ambassador for the European Union
(EU).
Donna E. Shalala
was a trustee at
the Committee for Economic Development,
a fellow at the Brookings Institution
(think tank), and is the president & CEO for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
Lee H. Hamilton is
an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), a board member for Global Green USA, and a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council.
Global Green USA
is a US affiliate of Green Cross
International.
William J. Bratton
is a member of the Homeland Security
Advisory Council, and David Cameron’s
security adviser.
David Cameron’s security
adviser is William J. Bratton, and is
the prime minister for the United Kingdom
(UK).
Des
Browne was the secretary of state for defense for the United Kingdom (UK), and is the vice chairman for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank).
Malcolm Rifkind
was a foreign secretary for the United
Kingdom (UK), and is a director at the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank).
David A. Hamburg
is an adviser for the Nuclear Threat
Initiative (think tank), and an advisory board member for the Global Security Institute.
Mikhail Gorbachev
is an advisory board member for the Global
Security Institute, the founder of Green
Cross International, was a general secretary for the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and the president of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
Global Green USA
is a US affiliate of Green Cross
International.
Lee H. Hamilton is
a board member for Global Green USA,
an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council.
William J. Bratton
is a member of the Homeland Security
Advisory Council, and David Cameron’s
security adviser.
Annise Parker is
a member of the Homeland Security
Advisory Council, and an advisory board member for Everytown for Gun Safety.
Everytown
for Gun Safety is a “Gun Safety, Gun
Control” group for guns.
Warren E. Buffett
is an advisory board member for Everytown
for Gun Safety, and an adviser for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank).
Michael Douglas
is a director at the Nuclear Threat
Initiative (think tank), and a friend of George Soros.
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) was a funder for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank).
Jessica Tuchman Mathews is a director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank),
a member of the Bretton Woods Committee,
was the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think
tank), a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think
tank), an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank),
and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Ed Griffin’s interview with Norman Dodd in 1982
(The investigation into the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace uncovered the plans for population control by involving the
United States
in war)
Larry
Klane is a member of the Bretton
Woods Committee, and was a group leader for Cerberus Capital Management L.P.
Paula
Stern is a member of the Bretton
Woods Committee, a director at Avon
Products, Inc., a trustee at the Committee
for Economic Development, and a trustee at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank).
George P. Shultz is
a member of the Bretton Woods Committee,
an honorary director at the Atlantic
Council of the United States (think tank), and was a trustee at the Committee for Economic Development.
Stuart E.
Eizenstat is a director at the Atlantic
Council of the United States (think tank), was a trustee at the Committee for Economic Development, and
a U.S. ambassador for the European Union
(EU).
Henry E. Catto was
the chair emeritus for the Atlantic
Council of the United States (think tank), and a U.S. ambassador for Great Britain.
Paula
Stern is a trustee at the Atlantic
Council of the United States (think tank), a member of the Bretton Woods Committee, a trustee at
the Committee for Economic Development,
and a director at Avon Products, Inc.
Michael P.C.
Carns was a director at the Atlantic
Council of the United States (think tank), and is a director at the Remington Outdoor Company.
Remington
Outdoor Company is owned by Cerberus
Capital Management L.P.
Daisy M. Soros is
George Soros’s sister-in-law, and a leader’s
council member for the Breast Cancer
Research Foundation.
When you buy or think pink, know where your green is
going
The cost of raising $100
Below are the 10
breast-cancer charities rated by the American Institute of Philanthropy.
Top-graded organizations spend most of their profits on their mission and not
on fundraising itself. They are able to raise $100 by using very little money
in the process.
(Organization, grade, the
cost to raise $100)
•Breast Cancer Research Foundation, A+, $7
•National Breast Cancer
Coalition Fund, A, $12-$13
•Breast Cancer Fund, A-, $13
•Susan G. Komen for the Cure,
B+, $6-$17
•Breast Cancer Network of
Strength, B-, $24
•Avon Foundation/Avon Walk for Breast Cancer, C+, $21-$39
•American Breast Cancer
Foundation, F, $43-$67
•United Breast Cancer
Foundation, F, $48-$69
•Coalition Against Breast
Cancer, F, $81
•Breast Cancer Relief
Foundation, F, $76-$86
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