First-class airline tickets and bonuses of $ 10,000, the gifts of the Spanx CEO to her employees
The Spanx leader said her employees will fly first class at Delta.
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Sara Blakely, CEO and founder of the women’s and men’s underwear company Spanx, closed a commercial agreement for $ 1, 200 million dollars with the investment company Blackstone. To celebrate, the executive awarded her employees.
Blakely gave away first class plane tickets to travel anywhere in the world, in case was not enough, also gave away $ 10, 000 dollars each of her collaborators to spend on trips.
The businesswoman of 50 year-old posted a video on his Instagram account in which he thanked his employees and not he hid his joy. Sara Blakely expressed that what happened represents “a very important moment for each and every one of you.”
In her emotionally charged speech, Sara Blakely added “I want to toast the women who have gone before me and to all the women of the world who have not had this opportunity ”. After expressing these words, the Spanx leader communicated that “to celebrate this moment, I have bought each of you two first-class tickets to anywhere in the world.”
In the video, you can see great emotion from the members of the company’s workforce upon hearing the CEO’s announcement, in some cases there was crying from the emotion. The company was founded in 1998 with a small investment of $ 5, 000 dollars and since then little by little has made its way into the fought textile industry .
21 years after Spanx was founded, the company celebrated its achievements in the best way, as Sara Blakely made clear in her Instagram profile commenting, “I really want each employee to celebrate this moment in their own way and make a memory that will last a lifetime! Greetings to 21 years of magic and many more to come. ”
In 2012, Sara Blakely was part of the annual list Time 100 from Time magazine, where the 100 most influential people in the world. Two years later, Forbes ranked her 93 as the most powerful woman in the world by her business work and its impact on society.
Spanx was originally dedicated to making women’s underwear, however the vision of its founder has made them seek to open up to the male market and since 2010 they have a line for men, which little by little has become the taste of consumers.
