Alberto-Culver Reviews

Pros

collaborative, open, fast paced, results oriented

Cons

you sold yourself to Unilever

Advice to Senior Management

leave

Pros

Nimble, entrepreneurial, great people, terrific brands

Cons

Small budgets, unattractive office environment

Pros

Small, entreprenural attitiude
Good customer relationships
Shopper focus

Cons

P & G hires are a cancer
too much focus on self, not the team

Advice to Senior Management

Realize that company success in not based solely on yourself. The employees and brands may have contributed.

Pros

Great people. Strong brands. Decent benefits. Mid level through director level management very competent. Was able to compete and win against companies that were much bigger.

Cons

The senior level executive management was incompetent. Putting a state of the art manufacturing facility in Jonesboro was a crucial mistake. Noxxema acquisition was a glaring error. Pay could have been better.

Advice to Senior Management

Enjoy your golden parachutes..

Pros

Benefits are really good for the size of the company, flexibility to work from home if necessary, time off policy is very generous.

Cons

Recently aquired by Unilever. All the small company values they used to have pretty much went out the window with the aquisition.

Pros

Alberto Culver has many smart, friendly people who work hard. The leadership team is excellent, and communicates well. Employees are treated with respect.

Cons

Our company was recently acquired by a larger company. Because of this, we are uncertain about our future at this time.

Advice to Senior Management

I have the utmost respect for the management team at AC, as they've done a wonderful job guiding the company of 56 years to a profitable sale.

Pros

Great, supportive group of people to work with, they're like family.
Promote a good work / life balance (but that can be on a per department basis.)
Opportunities to work across a broad range of consumer goods and see your accomplishments on shelf.
They have a fantastic indoor gym with classes and trainers available.

Cons

Too much focus on filling the pipeline and not enough focus on resource constraints.
Creating an innovation department but offering limited resources to support their projects.
Conflicts will sometimes result in finger pointing.

Advice to Senior Management

Deliver sound business decisions over personal polital agendas.

Pros

Small enough to have impact

Cons

Limited Advancement opportunities for job growth

Advice to Senior Management

Listen

Pros

People are the best thing
plenty of change, keep my job interesting.

Cons

Unilver has just purchased AC

Pros

There are a lot of great people at Alberto Culver. Work/life balance is usually decent. It's a fast paced environment. Employees are generally empowered to make and act on decisions

Cons

Has become much more political over the last 2 years. Sometimes the most competent and productive people get overlooked, while the more connected people get recognized and/or promoted. Pay is ok, but not spectacular by any means.

Basically, AC will take from you as much as you are willing to give, but will only give back just enough to keep you from leaving.

The company has recently been acquired by Unilever. If you are looking for a long term position, I would recommend looking elsewhere.