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Max Factor is a line of cosmetics from Coty, founded in 1909 as Max Factor & Company by Maksymilian Faktorowicz. [1]Max Factor specialized in movie make-up. Until its 1973 sale for US$500 million (approximately $3.6 billion in 2017 dollars), Max Factor & Company was owned by several generations of the family, becoming an international company during that time.
Max Factor Sr. (September 15, 1877 – August 30, 1938), [2] [3] born Maksymilian Faktorowicz, was a Polish-American [1] businessman, beautician, entrepreneur and inventor.As a founder of the cosmetics giant Max Factor & Company, he largely developed the modern cosmetics industry in the United States and popularized the term "make-up" in noun form based on the verb.
Max Factor demonstrating his beauty micrometer device in 1935. The beauty micrometer, also known as the beauty calibrator, was a device designed in the early 1930s to help in the identification of the areas of a person's face which need to have their appearance reduced or enhanced by make-up.
Coty is one of the world's largest beauty companies and the largest fragrance company, [4] [5] with $5.3 billion in revenue for the fiscal year 2022. [6] Coty acquired 41 beauty brands from Procter & Gamble in 2016, [7] becoming the global leader in fragrance, the second largest company for hair color and styling products, [8] and the third largest company for color cosmetics. [9]
Andrew Stuart Luster (born December 15, 1963) is heir to the Max Factor cosmetics fortune and a convicted sex offender. [1] He is the great-grandson of cosmetics giant Max Factor Sr. In 2003, he was convicted of multiple sexual assaults using the date-rape drug GHB.
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