Mary Kay Milestones

1963

"Beauty by Mary Kay" opens on Friday, Sept. 13 in a 500-square-foot storefront in Dallas, Texas.

1969

The Mary Kay Career Car program begins with the first Pink Cadillac.

1971

Mary Kay opens its first international subsidiary in Australia.

1984

Mary Kay Inc. is featured in Fortune magazine's The 100 Best Companies to Work For in America. Again in 1993 and 1998.

1992

Mary Kay Inc. is listed as a Fortune 500 company for 1992 and Most Admired Corporations in America in 1995.

1996

Global annual sales surpass $1 billion (USD) for the first time featured in the book Forbes Greatest Business Stories of All Time, and Mary Kay Ash is the only woman profiled. The Mary Kay Ash Charitable Foundation is established.

2001

Founder, Mary Kay Ash, passes away Nov. 22, 2001, on Thanksgiving Day – her favorite holiday.

2003

Mary Kay Inc. celebrates its 40th anniversary, and the Mary Kay independent sales force grows to 1 million people around the world.

2004

Mary Kay Ash is named one of the "25 Most Influential Business Persons of the Past 25 Years."

2005

Mary Kay Inc. reaches $2 billion in global annual sales.

2007

Mary Kay® products are now sold in more than 35 markets worldwide. Mary Kay's largest markets are in China, Mexico, the United States, Russia and Brazil.

2008

Mary Kay Inc. celebrates its 45th anniversary and launches its formal global corporate social responsibility initiative, Pink Changing Lives® with the sole purpose of changing the lives of women and children around the world.

2013

Mary Kay Inc. celebrates its 50th anniversary with 3 million Mary Kay Independent Beauty Consultants around the world.

2015

Mary Kay Inc. exceeds $4 billion in global annual sales and 3.5 million Mary Kay Independent Beauty Consultants.

"The definition of a successful person is simply an ordinary person with extraordinary determination. You cannot keep a determined person from success. If you place stumbling blocks in her way, she will take them for stepping-stones and will use them to climb to new heights. The one who succeeds has a goal, a dream, and makes her plans and follows them." ~ Mary Kay Ash