https://community.qvc.com/t5/Beauty/Bare-Minerals-SOLD/m-p/816233#M183405 <P>That happened years ago. Everyone knows about it.</P> Fri, 25 Apr 2014 11:50:24 GMT sashamatthews 2014-04-25T11:50:24Z https://community.qvc.com/t5/Beauty/Bare-Minerals-SOLD/m-p/816228#M183403 <P>Just stumbled upon an article on Forbes that BE was bought by Shisedo. Leslie Blodgett will still be consulting but is no longer CEO. Sounds like she wanted to get back to where she started when taking over BE. <IMG src="http://community.qvc.com/DesktopModules/ExactTarget/Controls/TextEditor/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/img/001_smile.gif" alt="Smile" /></P> Fri, 25 Apr 2014 11:42:19 GMT https://community.qvc.com/t5/Beauty/Bare-Minerals-SOLD/m-p/816228#M183403 fab23 2014-04-25T11:42:19Z https://community.qvc.com/t5/Beauty/Bare-Minerals-SOLD/m-p/816233#M183405 <P>That happened years ago. Everyone knows about it.</P> Fri, 25 Apr 2014 11:50:24 GMT https://community.qvc.com/t5/Beauty/Bare-Minerals-SOLD/m-p/816233#M183405 sashamatthews 2014-04-25T11:50:24Z https://community.qvc.com/t5/Beauty/Bare-Minerals-SOLD/m-p/816238#M183407 <P>Not everyone...I didn't know. Guess I'm late to all the news!<IMG src="https://community.qvc.com/" /></P> Fri, 25 Apr 2014 12:31:46 GMT https://community.qvc.com/t5/Beauty/Bare-Minerals-SOLD/m-p/816238#M183407 fab23 2014-04-25T12:31:46Z https://community.qvc.com/t5/Beauty/Bare-Minerals-SOLD/m-p/816244#M183410 <P>The company was actually sold back in 2010…so it's been 4 years ago. There was a lot of discussion a year or so ago when Leslie did her last show on QVC with Lisa.</P> Fri, 25 Apr 2014 12:39:53 GMT https://community.qvc.com/t5/Beauty/Bare-Minerals-SOLD/m-p/816244#M183410 peace6576 2014-04-25T12:39:53Z https://community.qvc.com/t5/Beauty/Bare-Minerals-SOLD/m-p/816248#M183412 <P>Leslie sold her company to Shiseido for 1.7 BILLION dollars. Good for her!!!</P> Fri, 25 Apr 2014 12:48:33 GMT https://community.qvc.com/t5/Beauty/Bare-Minerals-SOLD/m-p/816248#M183412 phluphy 2014-04-25T12:48:33Z https://community.qvc.com/t5/Beauty/Bare-Minerals-SOLD/m-p/816253#M183415 <BLOCKQUOTE><SPAN class="" quote_author="">On 4/25/2014 <STRONG>phluphy</STRONG> said:</SPAN> <P>Leslie sold her company to Shiseido for 1.7 BILLION dollars. Good for her!!!</P> </BLOCKQUOTE> Leslie owned 6% of Bare Escentuals when Shiseido bought it and she agreed to sell them 40% of her holdings. Fri, 25 Apr 2014 13:40:12 GMT https://community.qvc.com/t5/Beauty/Bare-Minerals-SOLD/m-p/816253#M183415 lyn in MI 2014-04-25T13:40:12Z