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Martha Stewart
Building a lifestyle business around cooking, decorating and practical household skills.
Entertaining · Martha Stewart Living
- Born
- 3 August 1941
- Birthplace
- Jersey City, United States
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Martha Stewart
Martha Stewart is an American entrepreneur whose books, magazines and television programmes turned domestic expertise into a major consumer brand.
Early life
Family skills
Learned cooking and sewing from her mother and gardening from her father.
College and modelling
Studied at Barnard and worked as a model while young.
Career
- 1967
Wall Street
Started working as a stockbroker.
- 1976
Catering business
Founded a catering venture in Connecticut.
- 1997
Omnimedia
Consolidated her publishing and merchandising businesses.
- 2005
Television return
Launched The Martha Stewart Show after serving a prison sentence.
- 2016
New collaboration
Co-hosted a cooking series with Snoop Dogg.
Companies & projects
Entertaining
The book that established her publishing career.
Martha Stewart Living
Launched a magazine built around household projects and food.
Potluck Dinner Party
Co-hosted a cooking programme with Snoop Dogg.
Beyond work
Legal case
Was convicted in 2004 of conspiracy, obstruction and false statements in a stock-sale investigation.
Animals and gardens
Has maintained extensive gardens and kept horses, dogs and other animals.
Sources & photo credit
Wikipedia biography and references ↗Founder biography ↗Photo: Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America. CC BY-SA 2.0 · Original image. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.
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