Avon.
Avon Avon, former county, England
Avon, former county, SW England, bordering the Severn estuary and the Bristol Channel. Created in 1974 from S Gloucestershire, Bristol, and N Somerset. , Laura Klepacki
Avon is the world's largest direct-sales company, with 4
million sales reps in no less than 140 countries. The writer traces the
U.S. company's rise from a small door-to-door bookseller to one of
the biggest cosmetics cosmetics, preparations externally applied to change or enhance the beauty of skin, hair, nails, lips, and eyes. The use of body paint for ornamental and religious purposes has been common among primitive peoples from prehistoric times (see body-marking). companies on the planet.
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