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As Chief Executive Officer of POLA Cosmetics Australia and New Zealand between October 1987 and December 1997, Marcia Griffin is believed to be one of the few Caucasian women in the world to have ever headed up a Japanese company.
POLA Cosmetics, unheard of in Australia before 1982, is a $3bn corporation based in Tokyo. Marcia joined the Australian franchisee who started marketing POLA in 1982, as the solitary sales person, by December 1997 she had built the company to a multi-million dollar business, with approximately 4,700 POLA consultants across Australia and New Zealand.
In December 1997,Marcia sold back her share of the Pola business to the parent company to take on other challenges.
Prior to commencing with POLA Cosmetics, Marcia worked as an Economist at the Australian Wool Corporation during which time she travelled the world extensively.
Marcia's educational qualifications are BA (Melbourne University), Dip. Ed (Monash University), B. Commerce (Melbourne University), MBA Preliminary Year (Melbourne University).
In May 1995 Marcia won the first Telstra Victorian Business Woman of the Year Award. In November 1995 she was a keynote speaker in Chicago at the Arthur Andersen 1995 Enterprise Best Business Practices Symposium.
In July 1998 Marcia published a book about her life and business -High Heeled Success and in that year she also chaired the panel for the 1998 Arthur Anderson Business Practice Awards.
Between 1996- 1998 Marcia was on the Advisory Board of Werribee Park Tourist Centre, 1997-2000 the Board of Tourism Victoria and 1998-2000 The Queen Victoria Market and Wholesale Fish Market and the Board of Melbourne Storm- that position made her the second woman only (after Dawn Fraser) in Australia to hold a Rugby League board position! She was also on the Board of the World Masters Games –the world's largest participatory sporting event -held in Melbourne in October 2002-with 25,000 competing athletes.
Her current Board roles include Australia's largest printing and distribution company-PMP, and National Pharmacies –an Adelaide based business with 53 pharmacies which is currently expanding into Victoria.
In addition to her directorships, Marcia is continuing her role as a Speaker and also works as a Business Strategy and Marketing consultant with Ramada Hotels, K2 Funds Management Group and architectural and interior design company- CARR Design Group. In the first six weeks of working with that firm she introduced their largest project ever –the interiors of a $150m project.
Her belief is that the same principles apply across all businesses -quality product, total customer focus, motivated people and great systems.
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