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Martha Stewart
America's Most Trusted Lifestyle Expert
Martha Stewart
America's Most Trusted Lifestyle Expert
Biography
As the founder of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, an Emmy Award-winning television show host, entrepreneur, and best-selling author, Martha Stewart is America’s most trusted lifestyle expert and teacher. Millions of people rely on her as a source of useful “how-to” information for all aspects of everyday living, including cooking, entertaining, gardening, home renovating, collecting, organizing, crafting, healthy living, holidays, and pets.
Her namesake company, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, which she founded in 1996, reaches approximately 66 million consumers across all media platforms each month with an expansive portfolio that includes television and video programming, award-winning magazines, best-selling books, and innovative websites and applications.
The company also has a growing retail presence with 8,500 products in thousands of retail locations, including the Martha Stewart Living line of home improvement products at The Home Depot; the Martha Stewart Collection of home products at Macy’s; the Martha Stewart Home Office line with Avery at Staples; Martha Stewart Pets products at PetSmart; Martha Stewart Crafts at Michaels and Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft Stores; and Martha Stewart Clean with Hain, among others. MSLO entered into a strategic alliance with J.C. Penney Company, Inc., and will launch products in J.C. Penney stores in the spring of 2013.
Raised in Nutley, New Jersey, in a family of six children, Stewart developed her passion for cooking, gardening, and homekeeping at an early age. Her mother taught her the basics of cooking, baking, canning, and sewing and her father introduced her to gardening at the age of three. She earned a bachelor’s degree in history and architectural history at Barnard College and, upon graduating, became a stockbroker on Wall Street, where she gained her early business training.
After moving to Westport, Connecticut, in 1972, she developed a catering business that showcased her remarkable talent and originality. Her unique visual presentation of food and the elegant recipes she created for her catered events were the basis for her book Entertaining, published in 1982. Entertaining was the first of 78 books, including bestsellers such as Martha Stewart’s Baking Handbook, Martha Stewart’s Homekeeping Handbook, and Martha Stewart’s Cooking School. The latter inspired the new weekly television series Martha Stewart’s Cooking School on PBS. It is the latest addition to MSLO’s expansive portfolio of television programming, which over the years has been recognized with 18 Emmy Awards.
Martha Stewart founded the Martha Stewart Center for Living at Mount Sinai Medical Center in 2007.
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