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Shavitz, who died yesterday at his home in rural Maine, and that hitchhiker would eventually become business partners. The skincare products would become ubiquitous and Shavitz's face would be emblazoned on the packaging.

Roxanne Quimby, the hitchiker and an artist in Maine, quickly "hit it off," according to the company website. Quimby made candles with unused wax from Shavitz's beehives, the source of his roadside honey stand. He would eventually sell off his stake for an undisclosed amount, but he continued to be compensated for his bearded likeness on company products.

Shavitz had a love of golden retrievers and the color yellow, the preferred shade of company packaging. In , the company relocated to North Carolina from Maine. Shavitz and Quimby first bootstrapped their business out of an old one-room schoolhouse with no windows, electricity or running water, later moving into an abandoned bowling alley as production expanded. I was trained in that way by the lifestyle I had chosen to live. Burt's Bees lip balm. Demand grew and Quimby relocated the company to Raleigh, North Carolina in to attract talent and professionalize production.

She offered Shavitz a acre property in Maine in exchange for his one-third stake in the firm, and he agreed to the deal. Quimby maintains it was a business decision to simplify the ownership structure, and Shavitz had not been active in the company for years.

Shavitz, who passed away in , admitted in the documentary Burt's Buzz that he was not suited for corporate life, but was essentially forced out from the firm. She also began to tire of the business world. I hardly had a minute for that kind of thing. Quimby had learned about a problem in national parks called inholding -- parcels of privately-held land sitting inside of government-owned parks. The owners had often been there since before the parks were created, but it complicates management for the National Park Service.

The plan took about a decade to complete, and Quimby traversed the country touring national parks to see where she wanted to make a contribution. They tell a story of what happened there, as opposed to one of those beautiful western landscaped parks. At the same time, Quimby was buying up plots of contiguous land in Maine.

She liked the idea of creating a national park that could bring tourists and bolster the local economy. It has the same challenges that many rural communities have… it needs revitalization. Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument. After his passing, the cabin was moved from Maine to our Durham headquarters, so visitors can see just how freeing a downsized life can be. We started melting and mixing beeswax in a ramshackle kitchen in Maine, grew into an abandoned schoolhouse, upgraded to bowling alley and finally pulled up stakes and headed south to North Carolina, where we settled into our current home—a former tobacco warehouse in the heart of downtown Durham.

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