Burt of Burt's Bees has died

[shenmue]

ABC News story here

The founder of Burt's Bees has died. Rest in peace.

[GoCubsGo]

1. Rest in Peace, Burt.

[abelenkpe]

2. Nooooooooo!

Sadness. Rest in peace. T_T

[BlueJazz]

3. .

[glinda]

4. Oh no.....

[ismnotwasm]

5. Oh Man

Condolences to friends and family

[MADem]

6. Old Burt sold that company years ago. RIP Burt.

http://www.treehugger.com/corporate-responsibility/the-back-story-behind-burts-bees-it-sold-out-years-ago.html

CLOROX owns it now....


I guess he upgraded from living in that turkey coop...?

In recent years, Shavitz lived in a cluttered house with no running water. A converted turkey coop that used to be his home remained on his property. He liked passing the time by watching wildlife.

[Ed Suspicious]

7. Yesterday for the first time in my life I bought one of his products. A small tin of lip ointment.

Fantastic product. Carry on now.

RIP

[marym625]

8. Awe

He had a great product. They really ripped him off when they purchased his company

[passiveporcupine]

9. I had to laugh

The last two posts of this thread, as visible from the title (after it was truncated) were

"Yesterday for the first time in my life I bought one of his products. A small tin of..."
"Awe"

I didn't know you could buy a tin of awe, but if you can, please tell me where.



RIP Burt. You made good products.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

10. Burt Shavitz, cantankerous hippie co-founder of Burt’s Bees, dead at 80

Burt Shavitz, cantankerous hippie co-founder of Burt’s Bees, dead at 80

Morning Mix
By Justin Wm. Moyer July 6 at 2:36 AM

The man whose bearded visage adorns one of America’s best known natural brands — and the co-founder of a multimillion-dollar company who missed out on a large part of its good fortune — is gone. Burt Shavitz, the face of Burt’s Bees, has died at 80.
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{Meet Burt’s Bees co-founder — a passive-aggressive Zen master who missed out on millions}

Though Shavitz may live in the hearts of Burt’s Bees forever, it hasn’t been his company in a long time. Shavitz was pushed out 15 years after Burt’s Bees founding for, he said, having an affair with an employee. Burt’s Bees was sold in 2007 to Clorox for more than $900 million, making Shavitz akin to the McDonald brothers — the name of a small-town product mostly cut out of its enormous success.
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Given the eventual sale of Burt’s Bees to a Fortune 500 company for nearly $1 billion, Quimby may have gotten the deal of the century: For his piece of Burt’s Bees, Burt got a house in Maine worth $130,000.

Burt’s Bees, like Ben & Jerry’s, is a hippie-ish, socially responsible-ish brand owned since 2008 by a large corporation — and, before that, by a private equity firm. But in Shavitz’s case, he didn’t get a big corporate paycheck. ... “If Mr. Shavitz had held onto the stake he traded to Ms. Quimby for $130,000, it would have been worth about $59 million,” the New York Times wrote in 2008.

[joeybee12]

11. Boy, did they screw him over...

Although one might think Burt didn't care..he lived how he wanted to...RIP.