W. Thomas Knight

Avon Products, Inc. engages in the manufacture and marketing of cosmetics and beauty related products. It operates through the following geographical segments: Europe, Middle East and Africa; South Latin America, North Latin America, and Asia Pacific. It offers beauty products such as skincare, fragrance, and color cosmetics; fashion and home items, which consists of fashion jewelry, watches, apparel, footwear, accessories, gift and decorative products, housewares, entertainment and leisure products, children's products, and nutritional products. The company was founded by David H. McConnell in 1886 and is headquartered in Northampton, the United Kingdom.

Presidential Life Corp. operated as an insurance holding company which was engaged in marketing and selling of fixed annuity, life insurance and accident and health insurance products. The firm offered annuity products, including single premium deferred annuities, flexible premium annuities, single premium immediate annuities and split annuity products. The company was founded in 1965 and was headquartered in Nyack, NY.