Elizabeth Arden
This article was originally published in The Rose Sheet
Executive Summary
Stephen Smith to exec VP and CFO responsible for all financial and accounting matters and reporting to President and CEO Scott Beattie. Smith previously worked as partner at PriceWaterhouseCoopers, where he provided financial consulting to Elizabeth Arden, Chesebrough-Ponds and Cartier. Exec has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions and post-acquisition integration, Arden says. Firm recently changed its name from FFI to Elizabeth Arden after acquiring the prestige brand from Unilever last year (1"The Rose Sheet" Nov. 6, 2000, p. 4)