NEW YORK (March 23) — Stanley Gault, retired Goodyear and Rubbermaid Inc. chairman, is leaving the Avon Products Co. board of directors after serving for 22 years.
Avon Products said Gault will retire from the board — on which he was chairman in a nonexecutive capacity from November 1999 to September 2001 — on May 3.
Gault was chairman and CEO of Rubbermaid from 1980-1991, chairman of Goodyear from 1991-1996, and CEO of the tire maker from 1991-1995. He also is a director of the National Association of Manufacturers and chairman emeritus of the College of Wooster.