Fred Hassan

NEW YORK — Avon has announced that nonexecutive chairman Fred Hassan has resigned his position after just four months so he can focus on other professional commitments. Hassan serves as a nonexecutive chairman of Bausch + Lomb and is a managing director...

NEW YORK , April 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Avon Products, Inc. (NYSE: AVP) today announced that its Board of Directors elected Douglas R. Conant to the Board, effective immediately. Mr. Conant, age 60, is the retired President and Chief Executive Officer of the Campbell Soup Company, where he served from 2001 - 2011 and led the company through a dramatic business transformation that generated quality sales growth, ten consecutive years of adjusted earnings per share growth, strong cash flow and record returns on invested capital.  Prior to that, Mr. Conant served from 1992-2000 at Nabisco in a series