On the path to success with Health & Beauty
LR Health & Beauty Systems was established in Ahlen (Westphalia) in 1985 as "LR-International". Today, 27 years later, LR is one of Europe’s leading direct sales enterprises by turnover.
Kazakhstan, 10 years Aloe Vera & fragrance successes with Bruce Willis
Birthday mood at LR: The Aloe Vera celebrates its 10th Anniversary year! Since 2002 LR successfully sells a variety of high quality Aloe Vera products. In September a new subsidiary in Astana, capital of Kazakhstan, opens. The sales in neighboring Russia are growing from month to month by around 20 percent.
LR wins the Marketing Award 2012 for the Bruce Willis campaign and launches with Lovingly by Bruce Willis the world's first fragrance for women created by the famous actor. The successful cooperation with Bruce Willis and his wife Emma as a LR.Joyce brand ambassador is extended by contract till 2016.
2011 is marked by two mega events:
In April, LR officially set foot on Russian soil and opened its 32nd subsidiary. Just a few months later, the keys for the first LR Mercedes were handed over in Moscow. At the end of the year, LR Russia ranked among the top 5 of the most successful LR countries.
LR’s new LR.Joyce jewellery collection followed in September. The highlight: 1-year quality warranty and exclusive shoe clips designed by Emma Heming Willis.
LR impressively celebrated its 25th anniversary:
Hollywood superstar Bruce Willis created his first fragrance exclusively with LR. The popular actor presented his fragrance on the LR stage in front of around 15,000 sales partners from 30 LR countries in the Festhalle Frankfurt.
LR’s optimised remuneration system attracted huge applause at the start of the year. Higher earning opportunities for partners and, as the new pinnacle of the existing car plan: an LR Porsche.
With Marcus Schenkenberg, LR welcomes a new international top star for the LR Starbox in 2009. The celebrity did not turn down the opportunity to attend the presentation of his own fragrance line at a special LR event at the Westfalenhalle Dortmund. Some other LR fragrances were revised.
In cooperation with dermatest, LR developed a test procedure to evaluate fragrance strength. Conclusion: the new products offer a longer lasting fragrance experience!
In 2008, LR aroused the interest of the media. As partner of the successful TV format, LR dedicated a fragrance to that year‘s winner Jenny. The Top Model fragrance is very popular among partners and the media.
The expansion of the LR car plan to include the LR Polo also attracted attention. The first car hand-over in the car-city Wolfsburg very quickly made impressive headlines with a Guinness World Record. In the same year, the 1,000th LR Polo was on the roads.
Many of today’s top sellers were launched in 2007, for instance Institut FRESENIUS-certified Colostrum, Serox, Nanogold and the Microsilver tooth paste.
A huge sales and marketing competition made quite some noise: the LR Champions Race. Prize money of over one million euros in total was paid out among all participating LR partners.
LR International was renamed LR Health & Beauty Systems. The new name was supplemented by two slogans: “Feel good. Look great." describes the enterprise from the LR clients’ point of view. “Your chance to change” focuses on opportunities that LR offers its sales partners.
American top stars became part of the LR Star Box and LR continued its fast–paced global expansion: in 2006, subsidiaries in Italy, Spain and New Zealand were opened.
LR “goes down under”: With the Australian superstar Ian Thorpe the launch down under in Melbourne turned into a mega event. In addition to the annual issue of the successful main catalogue, LR now launched monthly catalogues. Innovative product ideas and attractive offers became monthly top sellers.
LR impressively celebrated its 20-year company anniversary in the Yemen pavilion of the Hannover Expo Park. Numerous celebrities attended the “One thousand and one nights” event.
The success story continues. LR gained a foothold in Eastern Europe and opened LR Romania and LR Ukraine, while the product range was expanded.
In 2001, LR broke new ground with dietary supplements, followed by the Aloe Vera Drinking Gel in 2002 which was awarded the INSTITUT FRESENIUS quality seal right from the start.
A further success: the LR Starbox. Michael Schumacher was the first celebrity who created a fragrance line together with LR. Heidi Klum, No Angels and further celebrities followed thereafter.
On the occasion of its 10th anniversary, then as “LR-International”, LR founded its unique car plan. 200 consultants received their first LR Mercedes. Even the Mercedes Benz magazine reported about the 1.3 km “black line of cars”.
LR continued to grow, both on a national and global scale. Subsidiaries in Switzerland, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Portugal and France were opened.
After only five years of operative business, LR generated annual turnover of more than DEM 1 million.
In 1991, LR started global competition. Subsidiaries in Austria and The Netherlands were opened.
In 1994, 2 fragrances were launched that are among the most popular LR fragrances to the present day: the oriental-sensuous Harem fragrance for women and the oriental-spicy Jungle fragrance for men.
In 1985, LR was founded as “LR Cosmetic” in Ahlen (Westphalia). The range was composed of some fragrances and body care products.
Two years later, the range was expanded and the “Line Racine” care product line launched, followed by the “Lady Racine” cosmetics range in 1988.
In 1989, LR reached the first magical milestone by selling the 1,000,000th perfume.